| Description | 'This Stepney café is 'a death trap' court told' re Playbox Cafe, Berner Street, Stepney (East End Advertiser 15/3/57)
'Gambling? They were only playing cards for coffee says café proprietor' re 'Dorothy's Cosy Café' in Philchurch Street, Stepney, from the East London Advertiser (20/4/57)
'Dance is ended - Pro. Tem., Café owner is fined £60,' article re the Playbox Club, Berner Street, Stepney from the East End News (3/5/57)
'Proprietor denies his café is haunt of vice.' re Emanuel Buttigieg, Maltese proprietor of cafe at 1, Berner Street (Unknown paper 20/9/57)
'Police make swoop on gamblers; 24 arrests.' re Montague Club, 44 Old Montague Street, Whitechapel (Unknown newspaper; undated, c 1957)
'Bill to ban children from Clubs rejected: 101 - 38 Vote: Hardships feared: Rise of drunkenness among juveniles' (Daily Telegraph, undated, c 1957)
'LCC concerned over dancing on Sundays' (Daily Telegraph 29/3/58)
Two newspaper clippings,pinned together: 'Club murder. Accused again in court' re Pen Club, Duval Street, Spitalfields (Hackney Gazette, 26 Feb 1960) and 'St. Louis Club. East End rendezvous "on trial". Don't throw these coloured folk on the streets, a counsel pleeds' (unattributed and undated)
Newspaper clippings re: raids on West London clubs, (Kensington News and West London Times, Mar 1960)
Newspaper clippings relating to a libel action surrounding the portrayal of the Somali-run Rio Club, Ensign Street, Stepney on the "This Week" television programme (mainly from The Times, May 1963). |