For the older ones on here - I'm searching for a 1960s town centre cafe name

I've tried Tasker's photographic books (Barnsley Streets) and asked in various places but no luck so far. Someone on here might know the place I am looking for.

I am trying to find out the name of a cafe/coffee bar/milk bar that I used to visit in the 1960s. It was on the side of Midland Street where Eldon Arcade comes out. If you turned towards the market from the Arcade I believe it was the last building in that row - more or less where that aquatics shop is now.

I have searched all the photo books and clicked on the search engine in Tasker's website with no result. It is NOT the Minerva Cafe - that was across the road with access from Midland Street and the Bus Station.

If anyone knows the name of this business, or even has a photo they could post, it would be great. It's just something I thought of a few weeks ago when reading a book that mentioned a similar place in a fictitious South Yorkshire town called Thurmarsh and I can't get it out of my head now. I need the NAME!

 

Was it something like The Acropolis.

 

I will ask me mam we used to go in it all the time.

 

Cousins

 

My mam says it was the Acropolis when we used to go in it. I was always disappointed cos I liked the milky frothy coffee in the Minerva.

 

Not sure about that. There WAS an Acropolis cafe but I remembered that one being close to the Odeon cinema on Eldon Street.

 

Yes, I've heard that name before but I don't think it was called Cousins in the 1960s. I may be wrong though

 

See my reply below to JC. I think the Acropolis was on Eldon street.

 

I'm still working on it. I seem to think it had a short name.

 

This link suggests that you are right but I don't remember it being called that when I used to go in.

http://www.wearebarnsley.com/mobile/photos/photo/15/11047/midland-street/1

It is a long time ago though but I thought it had a more exotic name than that!

 

Next to The Burtons that was on the corner? My mam seems fairly sure.

 

Was it Raynes Cafe?

 

Raynors Cafe?

 

Weren`t that bottom of Arcade?

 

Don’t think so

 

Just a cafe name from the past. Def at the bottom of the Arcade now you've reminded me.

 

Yes I remember that one but what I am looking for is one on Midland street across the road from the bus station, early to mid-1960s

 

I know which one you mean, I'm digging up names from my past to jog my memory. I remembered Raynors but wasn't sure where it was until reminded. It might just come to me if I stop trying.

 

https://wwwapplications.barnsley.gov.uk/librarydigitisation/
Have you looked on the above mate ?, sithi.

 

cousins , did a bit of courting in there , seem to remember red flock wallpaper