Sheila Burnett – The social scene at The Coffee Bean

Simon: About The Coffee Bean and the social scene around that. That was literally Saturday morning was your meeting up point was it?

Sheila: Well yeah but we used to be there on a lot of Saturdays and funnily enough, the other week I bumped into somebody in Busy Bee in the Café and we looked at each other, “Oh my gosh” we hadn’t seen each other for years.

She was the one that I used to meet in … well I didn’t meet her personally to sit with her or anything but we knew her because we met her through bridge actually because my husband and I had started playing bridge and she played bridge and she always used to meet her husband in there, so we’d say, “hello, how are you?” sort of thing.

And then blow me, I went and knowing that you were coming, it was really strange. I saw her and I hadn’t seen her for ages, probably since Covid, and that’s when I said, “Now you can help me” I said, “’cos you used to go in there.” I said, “What was Molly’s surname?” Well obviously she must have been a local because she knew Molly’s maiden name and her surname, so I got that.