The Ace Cafe: Then and Now
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The book opens with the first beginnings of bike racing in the London area — at High Beech — in 1928 and continues with the prewar history of the North Circular as one of Britain’s new ‘arterial’ roads, and the establishment of the Ace ‘roadhouse’ at Stonebridge Park in 1939. Then, Barry ‘Noddy’ Cheese, one of the Ace’s original ‘tonup’ boys, paints a graphic picture for us of the excitement of life at the cafe in the 19501960s. The controversial Dixon of Dock Green TV episode is covere...






















