The good old days
Walk around any UK town centre and you are likely to find at least one of the major coffee shop chains' estimated 4,000 outlets.
What you will not find anywhere other than Ellesmere Port in Cheshire is a National Milk Bars café.
While the chain was never of a scale anything like that of Starbucks, Caffé Nero or Costa Coffee, it was, for a time, a staple of high streets across the north-west of England and Wales.
National Milk Bars were the brainchild of Welsh dairy farmer Robert "Willie" William Griffiths.
In the early 1930s, the milk bar phenomenon reached London from the USA. Griffiths saw glasses of milk being sold over smart counters for a few pence a glass, and decided to take the concept back home to Wales.
Griffiths and his wife Florence opened the first National Milk Bar in
Colwyn Bay in 1933, and ran the chain from the Woodlands farm in Forden, near Welshpool, for a number of years.
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