Museum Cafe

I am still wading through some of my Newcastle photos and this one was taken just over a week ago in the museum café when we went to the science exhibition.

I wonder if you can still buy Quibell's sheep dip and Lifebuoy soap and whatever happened to the Bristol Piano Company.

[Margo]

Great find BABs

[Peter]

Lovely capture full of interest, light and colour Babs:)

[Beryl Lloyd]

Yes , a lovely nostalgic find -- love the advertising of the day , wonder if the future generations will smile at todays advertising !

[Valerie Chesney]

Great, I so like these old posters.

[Robyn]

Great old posters

[Linda Sanderson]

I love the lighting in this!!

[Lynda McG]

Nice scene!

[Chris K]

nice composition. Evidently you can still buy Lifebouy but without the carbolic acid !!!

[sally agnew]

I love the door. I bet the sheep dip was toxic. Interesting shot Babs :)

[Helen Sanderson]

Don't know about the sheep dip..but I do love the old signs on the old brick walls. Text is often tricky in images..very well integrated here.

[Jane Morley]

Why does Dave need dipping? ( sorry)

[belinda]

Looks like an interesting space

[leggzy]

It looks like a beaut little cafe....nice capture

[Jodie]

What a wonderful old building, nice shot.

[Leana Niemand]

Looks a lovely little cafe.

[Martina]

Looks like a lovely place!

[Lynne]

Looks like a wonderful place. Very interesting.

[mittens (Marilyn)]

Interesting and lovely shot.

[Merrelyn]

Great collection of old signs :)

[Karen]

Love all the different things going on!

[KWind]

Fabulous space! I love the signs on the old brick!

[Margaret Brown]

Great find

[Jennifer]

love the signs, looks like a great place

[gloria jones]

Great find and capture

[Shailesh]

super shot

[Ivan]

Great old adverts! I remember the disinfectant smell of Lifebuoy!

[Sally Ings]

Love all the old signs

[Stephanie]

Interesting shot. I do like the old and new elements of this photogprah - old signage & modern furniture. Is the museum in some sort of warehouse? I was thinking of those purple hooks that you posted a few days back, plus the doors in this picture remind me of warehouse doors.

[Helen Jane]

Looks like a great café.

[Babs]

@stephanies The museum was originally the railway workshops. The space where the purple hooks (the hooks of the Craven crane) were was originally the locomotive boiler shop and the café was once the blacksmiths and wheel shop. Thanks for asking.

[Babs]

@chimfa ha ha he definitely needs dipping in something at the moment he has got a 'man cold' and is at deaths door.

[Babs]

@ivan I remember the smell of lifebuoy too.

[Rachel]

They are probably all bought out by conglomerates (I'm such a cynic) :)

[Islandgirl]

Lovely old cafe!

[Dawn]

Cool find

[Susiangelgirl]

Nice capture Babs

[Lois]

Cool signs!

[Caroline]

This is quiet a lovely space you captured, Babs :)

[Taffy]

I do like the signs. I wonder if toning down the highlights would make the door frame be in more balance. I do like your composition.

[Marnie]

Gosh Babs, I remember most of those products!! Looks like a fabulous place.

[Marnie]

@888rachel Nope, you're a realist.

[Paul]

A nice capture. I love that door :)

[Babs]

@hermann Quite a lot of things were quite toxic back then weren't they Sally.

[Babs]

@taffy You are right Taffy, I did tone down the highlights a bit, but I am a bit flat out at the moment and really didn't have much time to play with this shot. I will have another look at it when I get chance. It was a very bright and sunny day and the sunlight was just pouring in through the doorway.

[Kathy A]

Lovely old signs, I remember Tarax.