Pastries that would melt in your mouth
“THEY used to make pastries that would melt in your mouth.”
Looking Back asked readers if anyone could remember the Creamery cafe in Derby Square, and one reader who used to work in the cafe has been in touch with her memories of the place.
Mrs Iris Warner (nee Henson), 71, of Leicester Road, Quorn, said she worked in the cafe when she was 17, and that she used to be the ‘runabout’.
Iris said that the cafe was run by a husband and wife called Elizabeth and Arthur Cooper.
She said she got the job because her sister (Christine Turner) was married to Elizabeth’s brother (David Turner) and Elizabeth asked her if she would like a job at the cafe.
She said that she had been a cutter at Towles but that she didn’t like the job, so when Elizabeth offered her a job she jumped at the chance. One of the things that the cafe was famous for was playing films while people were eating, and Iris remembers the “get up and go” films that they used to play.
She said that all the films had to be something of interest, and that no “smoochy smoochy” films were allowed.
Iris said that one of the things she remembers most fondly from working at the cafe were the pastries and she said they would “melt in your mouth” they were that tasty, and that the next best thing on the menu was the Raspberry pie- which she said the Creamery was famous for .
She said she loved working at the cafe: “I think it was just the atmosphere of it all. It was happy go lucky and it was just a nice place to work.
“Arthur and Elizabeth were a lovely couple and they lived above the shop.”
Iris said that Elizabeth had a “menagerie of animals” in the couple’s home, and that included ‘Laura’ the parrot, a Siamese car and a squirrel monkey.
She remembered a number of other members of staff that worked in the cafe including Jim - the dishwasher and Vera the waitress.
While working in the Creamery Iris went through a few very significant moments in modern history and she said that two of them that stick out the most include working the day of the World Cup final in 1966 and hearing the news that JFK was shot in 1963.
She said: “I remember listening to it on the radio, I was sorting the reels for the films and I was shocked when I heard the news that he had been shot.”
Do you remember the Creamery cafe in Derby Square? Maybe you even used to work there too or remember going into the cafe and watching one of the films there?
If you have any memories of the place or even any old photos please contact Liam Coleman on 01509 635806 or email liam. coleman@trinitymirror.com