Wales Tea Rooms

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Wales Tea Room Gallery, in alphabetical order by name of city or town.

Bettwys-y-Coed

The Blue Bird Tea Room, Bettwys-y-Coed, Wales, interior, postcard front. The small village of Bettwys-y-Coed ("Prayer-House in the Woods") is quite popular with tourists. The back of the card tells us that H. Byrd was the proprietor of the Coed-y-Celwyn ("Trees and Twigs") and Blue Bird Tea Rooms in Bettwys-y-Coed, and the maker of the card was The R.A.P. Co. Ltd., London.

Denbighshire

Williams "The At Home" Tea Rooms, Llanfairtalhaiarn, Denbighshire, Wales, exterior, RPPC postcard front, featuring outdoor seating. The signs advertise that the shop is also a grocer's and sells Lyon's tea, but the tables and chairs are set outside most becomingly beneath a row of potted geraniums and near a flowering shrub. Mr. Williams poses in the doorway, very trim in white shirt, vest, and trousers, and a young woman stands by, ready to serve the customers. Given the narrowness of the roadway, the cleaver photographer made this tricky shot by viewing down and outward from the second storey window of a nearby building, and if you look up the hill, you will see that three male bystanders have collected to watch the proceedings, and they've gotten themselves included in the photo.
Williams "The At Home" Tea Rooms, Llanfairtalhaiarn, Denbighshire, Wales, exterior, RPPC postcard back.

catherine yronwode
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The Mystic Tea Room

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