The Green Room
A Memory of West Byfleet.
If you look closely, just behind the R.A.C. sign, you can see a sign for The Green Room, which was a delightful little tea room run by two sisters I think. It was very elegant and seemed to belong to another time altogether.
I have a very distant and cherished memory of having a morning coffee there with my mother around 1967 when I was six years old, but no one I have ever spoken to can remember the place. This photo is the first time I have ever seen any proof that it did actually exist, and wasn't just a figment of my imagination.
Martin Virgo
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I think it was certainly run by two sisters. They also sold the most delicious cakes, I especially remember something called a "Jumble Cake" which, as its name implies, had a bit of everything in it, including, mysteriously, solid pieces of chocolate - I never could work out why they hadn't melted when the cake was being baked!
There were 2 or 3 rooms that were rented upstairs,for guests.( hotel like)
My mum said that if she cleaned upstairs, then came down, she was always to come down with something in her hands😊
My mums favorite were the ladies rock cakes.
My grandfather used to say when soldiers got off the train they got a free tea & cake plus a penny from the Green Rooms.