Ace cafe celebrates 25th anniversary of closure

Title

Ace cafe celebrates 25th anniversary of closure

Genre

News report; Interview

TX Date

5 Sep 1994

Year of production

1994

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Duration

00:03:49

Description

Max Cotton reports from Alperton on the twenty-fifth anniversary of the closure of the Ace Cafe on the North Circular Road. The cafe was a meeting place for British bikers in the 1950s and 1960s but was closed down by police in 1969. It was reopened for one day at the weekend, to mark the anniversary. Includes interviews with bikers celebrating the event: Mark Wilsmore, Fred Johnson, Tony The Mouse Cannon, Father Scott Anderson; music by the The Shangri-Las et al. (In later years Mark Wilsmore reopened the cafe).

Contributors

Max Cotton; Fred Johnson; Tony Cannon; Scott Anderson; Mark Wilsmore

Keywords

London; Anniversary celebrations; Motorcycles; Anniversaries; Cafes; Ace cafe; Alperton; North Circular Road

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