The Ace Cafe: Then and Now [Paperback]

The book opens with the first beginnings of bike racing in the London area  at High Beech  in 1928 and continues with the pre-war history of the North Circular as one of Britains new arterial roads, andthe establishment of the Ace road-house at Stonebridge Park in 1939. Then, Barry Noddy Cheese, one of the Aces original ton-up boys, paints a graphic picture for us of the excitement of life at the cafe in the 1950-1960s. The controversial Dixon of Dock Green TV episode is covered as is the making of the classic film The Leather Boys andthe book goes on to describe events leading up to the closure and subsequent isolation of the Ace with the construction of the new bypass in the 1990s. Thestory is brought up to date with the resurrection of the cafes fortunes under Mark Wilsmore and the fantastic reopening celebrations in September 2001.The book opens with the first beginnings of bike racing in the London area  at High Beech  in 1928 and continues with the pre-war history of the North Circular as one of Britains new arterial roads, andthe establishment of the Ace road-house at Stonebridge Park in 1939.GB