More pies

Yesterday we found another value proposition at the Galleon café of York Road. I took my third pie in as many days, this one in the form of a steak and kidney pudding. Pudding rather larger, but vegetables, while including some crinkly cabbage, not quite as good as those of the West Street Caffé noticed at reference 1. They had, perhaps, been sitting in the bain-marie a little too long. But, in the round, a good meal and good value for money. No nonsense with drizzles on the food or flowers, plastic or otherwise, on the tables.

Similar clientèle to that of the other establishment, with the difference that there was a touch of the Sunday best on this occasion, it being a Sunday. We wondered whether the survival of establishments of this sort reflected the probably low standard of living of many of the inhabitants of central Bognor. As opposed to the probably high standard of living of the inhabitants of the many grand villas of outer Bognor.

We also wondered about the odd mixture of old and new buildings in the town. Was there a lot of building after the second world war when Bognor was riding high as a seaside resort? Was there a lot of war-time damage, the result of proximity to Portsmouth, very badly knocked about at that time, and to airfields such as Tangmere?

In which connection I might mention that the town does sport a rather grand club building for the Royal Air Forces Association. See reference 2.

Reference 1: http://psmv3.blogspot.co.uk/2016/09/cabbage.html.

Reference 2: http://www.rafa381.co.uk/.