photos from the ace cafe london

I always knew of the Ace Cafe but had never got there....... Until I accidently stumbled across it when walking from the Wembley Travelodge to the tube station last month lol. Even managed to persuade the missis to get breakfast there HAHA.

I got a few snaps then and a few in the evenings we were there when we were walking past and there was sme interesting stuff parked up (sorry only phone quality)















Few old pics from the walls:










Evening shots (rubbish quality sorry):

Well, you certainly won't find any interesting photos of the place as a gearhead's meeting point from the 70s as it closed as a cafe in '69. I do just about remember it as a child in the late '70s and '80s as we would go past on the way to visiting grandparents (The underpass was obviously not there then and that road outside was the North Circular, one lane in each direction I think under the railway bridges.) I was lucky to see its gradual re-birth through the late '90s and was going to a monthly rod/custom meet there from, '97 when it was still a tyre shop. Somewhere I do have a couple of photos from around then of a surf/rockabilly band playing where the stairs now are. I was working over in Acton when in the early '00s it was being re-built into what it is now. I remember being seriously impressed when all those front windows went in, such a change from the garage shutters that had been there for decades. One day on teh way home from work I spotted a familiar Volvo Amazon in the car park and drove over to find a metal-man I know building the bar - leading on to the 'claim to fame' that my hacksaw was involved in making that bar

Ace Cafe Hot Rod by BUMBOO.CO.UK, on Flickr


Red n Yellow V8s by BUMBOO.CO.UK, on Flickr