Sea Street: Rustic Tea Rooms, later The Quality Bar Cafe, and demolition

Two advertisements for The Rustic Tea Rooms in Sea Street. The second advert is taken from a 1930-1931 Guide Book for St Margaret’s published by K J Madge. The proprietor of the Tea Rooms at that time was Mrs Clayson.

Following is research by Ruth Nicol into the listed owners and tenants of the Rustic Tea Rooms which became the Quality Bar Café in 1950. Subsequently the café closed and there is a record of the building being used as a youth club in 1962. The building then became known as St Margaret’s House and there is a record of an advertisement for the Pixie Play School in St Margaret’s House, Sea Street in 1978.

Photograph of the building as St Margaret’s House (undated). Note the wall-mounted advert for G H Kenway & Sons in the background to the left.

Two photographs of St Margaret’s House; the first taken in April 1998 prior to demolition and the second taken on 1st May 1998 showing the cleared site.