New cafe

I see the stone path has been re-instated, BUT no stone with the B has been placed, the space is filled with concrete; I think a letter to the Development company is in order.

What I cannot undertand is why the previous coffee shop could not make it, and this one considers it will? It is not as if they are real coffee houses in the sense that I have known. Most of the places in town have no atmosphere whatsoever.

Used to be Scobies tobacconists. We used to nip in there after school and he'd sell us single cigarettes from the pack.

Scobie was a regular at Trenwainton Hill Climb, and good at it as well.

I used to help on the gate at Trengwainton Hill Climb and remember Dennis Scobie, well with his Morgan three-wheeler. I used to love his shop, Bassetts the tobacconists, my father would buy his pipes there. I could spend hours looking at all the pipes in the window. In student days I went in to buy my tobacco and a pipe or two from him. A gentleman.

I remember this place as tobacconists too - must have been mid to late '70s? You could go in with a 'Clipper' (I think) type gas lighter and have it refilled by a handy gadget on the wall - much better than using a gas canister yourself whereby most of the gas would escape with not much going in the lighter ...

Isn't there also a Coffee Roma in Albert St? Both locations seem odd for a coffee shop to me. Both seemed to spend a lot of money kitting them out, how many coffees and obscenely priced muffins will they have to sell to break even?

As much as I welcome the use of otherwise empty and potentially decaying buidings, I wish the decision to open one establishment or another was more carefully researched. As our Scottish member asks, just how many such places are wanted or able to be supported in Penzance. When I worked in London I loved to go into such places (not Starbucks, please!!) but it was a transport to a place of relief. Here, I grab a pasty, a sticky bun and head for the bay. Best place to be.

@ rrrrrrichie there is a sinister reason behind the explanation... whatch out for a post in the forth coming Hot Goz section. Anything and everything that's going on around Penwith will be in this section!

I remember Basset's Scobie was a gent and let us stand in the shop and sniff the atmosphere. I used to by my snuff and tickler there when I was older. It was also a fishmongers and had some really beautiful, handmade tiles making a mural on the wall on the right, behind the chiller. Any ideas what happened to them?