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'Charming' café that came decades before LEAF on Bold Street
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PROTEST…Extinction Rebellion, along with local residents, has set up camp on Manchester’s Ryebank Fields in an attempt to prevent the land being redeveloped into housing. The site is owned by Manchester Metropolitan University, which plans to sell it to a developer to build 70 homes. It would be something of an understatement to say that the plans have been controversial – residents use the land for recreational purposes and don’t want to part with it. Indeed, a whopping 44% of responses to the most recent consultation on Manchester’s local plan were voicing objections to the Ryebank Fields plan. The sit-in is the campaigners’ latest attempt to foil the proposals – they claim the land is not fit for development due to the presence of asbestos and the fact that it was previously used for landfill but is the perfect place to walk your pooch, of course. MMU, which THING contacted for comment, probably can’t wait to be well shot of the land but the que
Sara Spary, CNN • Updated 6th May 2021
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(CNN) Builders in the English city of Liverpool have unwittingly uncovered a piece of culinary and local history when an intact menu from 1913 fell from the ceiling during a renovation project.
The menu, dated Wednesday January 15 1913 and branded Yamen Café and Tea Rooms, was among a number of artifacts discovered in the rafters of the Leaf café on Bold Street, central Liverpool, last week.
Other items included a waiter s hat with Yamen embroidered on the rim, instructions for the English card game of whist and bottles.
Leaf founder and owner Natalie Haywood told CNN Thursday that the discovery was mind blowing and almost creepy given that Leaf itself sells speciality teas, like its predecessor.