Hello, welcome to Caf Walk. I am really excited, and also much later in posting this than planned. This newsletter is about mapping the classic Formica cafes in (mostly) The North of England. In terms of how many of these places survive in The North, my resources are finite, and I imagine that I may run out of cafes fairly quickly and this might have to start being about bingo hall architecture or leisure centre tiles, or anything that scratches the itchiness of needing to experience some small level of existing for a moment in a time-warp space. But for now, cafes. (and also maybe miniature railways somehow too, because often there is one near the other and luckily with age I have grown brave enough to unflinchingly weather the judgement of asking to go on a miniature train without being accompanied by a child)
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Hello, welcome to Caf Walk. I am really excited, and also much later in posting this than planned. This newsletter is about mapping the classic Formica cafes in (mostly) The North of England. In terms of how many of these places survive in The North, my resources are finite, and I imagine that I may run out of cafes fairly quickly and this might have to start being about bingo hall architecture or leisure centre tiles, or anything that scratches the itchiness of needing to experience some small level of existing for a moment in a time-warp space. But for now, cafes. (and also maybe miniature railways somehow too, because often there is one near the other and luckily with age I have grown brave enough to unflinchingly weather the judgement of asking to go on a miniature train without being accompanied by a child)