London Cafes

In Anna's first speech, she talks about "the cafes we found, almost private ones, weren't they? where artists and writers and sometimes actors collected, and others with dancers, we sat hardly breathing with our coffee..." The cafes Anna is referring to, located primarily in Soho, were the center of the burgeoning youth culture in the early 1950s (think the Beats, only British).

Here is a clip of a woman talking about cafe culture:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6YwaYXvAfM

Here's a history of coffee in London:

http://www.classiccafes.co.uk/History.html

And here's one that's more about architecture/ design:

http://www.classiccafes.co.uk/Tour_central.html

Another really good design/style link:

http://www.vads.ac.uk/learning/designingbritain/html/coffeebars.html