According to Nicholson's entry for Minworth on the Birmingham and Fazeley Canal reads as follows:
Minworth Warwicks. PO, tel, stores. A mainly residential area on the city outskirts, totally dominated by roads. There is a handy transport café close to Hansons Bridge.
Handy transport café, eh? We were passing mid-morning on 6th April. Well, I say "passing", but I had to stop to check out the breakfast situation.
The Drome Café unusually combines a standard transport caff with a fried chicken takeaway. At 1015 it was almost empty, the regulars, no doubt, having filled their stomachs hours earlier.
Two great things about a fry-up breakfast are that it's rare to get a duff one as the important bits are cooked to order (bacon, eggs, mushrooms, sausages, toast or fried bread - the baked beans can be kept warm, I suppose); and it's usually very quick. We were on our way again only half-an-hour after stopping (Jan declining the opportunity to stoke up).
Named after the Aerodrome that used to opposite but is now Castle Vale housing estate,I can remember going to an air show there when I was about 6 or 7 years old on the back of my fathers Triumph 650 motorcycle, as a teenager I used the cafe when I started work close by.
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Sometimes, I miss things like transport caffs....unknown in that form here in NL.
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