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Coffee#1 to open seventh cafe in Bristol
A ghost sign above 60 Union Street in Broadmead reveals that this building was a cafe once upon a time before it became a Barclays bank and more recently a base for the Royal British Legion.
The ghost sign appears to be for Carwardine’s – whose first cafe was opened in the 1920s on Corn Street and became a Bristol institution, owning cafes and dining rooms across the city including the Berkeley cafe at the top of Park Street.
The Carwardine name lives on with Martin Carwardine & Co, who roast coffee in Upper Langford in Somerset.
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60 Union Street is now being turned into Bristol’s latest Coffee#1: its seventh to be precise.
Coffee#1 can already be found on Welsh Back in the city centre as well as in Henleaze, Bedminster, Clifton Village, Fishponds, Whiteladies Road and Westbury-on-Trym.
The first Coffee#1 opened in 2001 and says it gives “customers a more complete experience… (remaining) true to the values we established on day one and that’s to make it locally loved – serving great coffee made by talented baristas, in a relaxed and welcoming environment where your time is your own”.
Main photo: Martin Booth
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