Victorian Coffee Gallery, on the corner of Oxford Terrace and Montreal Street, Christchurch. 1968.
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Wasn’t this a cool hangout in 60s Christchurch? Duffle coats rule ok
Yes indeed it was and it was just over the river from where I was flatting – so convenient. It and Number 17 (Chancery Lane) seemed soo sophisticated. I definitely had a duffle coat too.
So fab, I remember it well. Dark cavernous place with candles in wine bottles where everyone went after a night in town for the best hot chocolates. Pure nostalgia.
I went there in the mid-80s, along from the Grenadier Hotel … A long-haired dude played chess in the front window, by candlelight, alone…
I think there was a generic long haired dude in the window.
I went there – still a cool hangout in the late 80s. I liked that you could play boardgames. Raved about the place to Mum and she told me she used to go there as a nursing student. Multigenerational!
I had a friend visiting from Nelson recently who said, as we were driving along Oxford Tce, ‘We’ll be going past the VC’. Sadly, I had to break the news that it had not been there for many years. Lots of the same memories for me too – dimly lit with wine bottle candles encrusted with generations of wax, great hot chocolate, generic dude in window playing solo chess…