Harbour Cafe!?

[Doc Vernon]

We may have had something on this line before/
But i am sure there must be many out there who remember this old Harbour Cafe in Cape Town Docks!
I used to go there Years before i went to Sea as well,i particularly remember one time when i picked up a Girl there,i was then only 17 and boy what a time ! haha!
But it was well known to all Seaman,and was always so busy,a good place for a quick Cuppa and a Sarnie! Remember the Egg and Bacon Rolls Huge things that were,enough to fill any Stomach! And at a good price then too!
Cheers

[happy daze john in oz]

Well remembered Vernon, if we had an hour or two between service you would always see some of the lads there. On one occasion we held a 'funeral service' for an empty brandy bottle that had given us good service and slowly let it slide from a waiters cloth into the waters of the bay just about opposite that cafe.

[alf corbyn]

hi vernon. i well remember the cafe if its the same one. the only place i ever saw a nickelodeon. you put a record on and had a short film of the singer singing the song. i don't know how it worked but it was very good. there was a very old black man working there with nearly white hair and he could tell some tales. i think most of the castle boys made it an afternoon visit or early evening before going up town. alf
i suggest you have a look at an author called David Fiddimore. he wrote three books. Tuesdays World, Charlies War and The Forgotten War. all about a Radio Operator in a Lancaster Bomber alf