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Correction: Britain's first milk bar was opened in Colwyn Bay in 1933. The Black and White Milk Bar was London's first milk bar. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-
by jdietrich 2y ago
Correction: Britain's first milk bar was opened in Colwyn Bay in 1933. The Black and White Milk Bar was London's first milk bar.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-mid-wales-12038590 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-mid-wales-12038590
The last remaining branch of this original chain is still trading in Ellesmere Port, albeit as a fairly conventional cafe.
https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/last-remaining-milk-bar-reminder-27910542 https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/last-rem...
- DFHippie 2y agoThat same article says Griffiths, the founder of National Milk Bars in Wales, got the idea when he saw them in a trip to London, and that they were an idea imported from the United States, so it must go back farther still.