Palma Ault: Shops, The Square

Mills Tea rooms, corner of the Square and Quay Street.

Mills Tea rooms, corner of the Square and Quay Street.

When I worked in Mills Café we used to have to go across the Square with a big urn,  – it took 2 of us to carry it –  fill it up with boiling water in Mills Bakehouse, carry it back across the Square to the café and put it on the gas stove.  We used to do this 2 or 3 times a day depending on how busy we were. The tea was 1d a mug.  The cake shop was downstairs and tearoom upstairs.   Palma Ault nee Holloway b1927