Sheila Burnett – The Coffee Bean was the social hub

Sheila: The Coffee Bean, that’s right. We nearly always ended up there on a Saturday morning for coffee.

Simon: And who would ‘we’ be?

Sheila: My husband.

Simon: Ok.

Sheila: And we would see one or two other people that we always knew that were in there, and obviously the people behind that served us, and they knew us.

Simon: Yeah, so it was quite a social hub.

Sheila: It was really in many ways, yes. Yes, I was always taken aback by there was one lady that served us coffee and she knew what the word ‘smidgen’ and I thought I hadn’t heard that for years, as my dad used to use the word ‘smidgen’ (laughs).

Simon: Right. Yeah, that was for the milk serving.