This is not actually a worst. It would be wonderful for this to happen. A TWOP associate is looking for friends, supporters and even investors to take the small bar/cafe scene to Bayswater. Think Maylands without the gun shop. Email, even if it’s only to commit to buying a craft beer in the future.
whynobayswatercafe@yahoo.com.au
He is putting together a syndicate. The possible locations are the Fish and Chips shop near the corner of King William and Whatley, which has a massive outdoor area behind it, or the cafe a little further down and across the road. Come on, it’s time for Baysie to be the latest neo Subi. You know you want it. There’s already a bespoke bike shop and a yoga centre next door, and no place to buy a bloody coffee.
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bloody brilliant idea.
i have long wondered how long gentrification would take to move along whatley crescent.
just a shame i no longer live in the area.
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And there’s already council provided free wifi.
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not sure stirling provide that up the road at eighth ave.
maybe lannie might be interested?
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Who is the TWOP associate?
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I propose the expansive footpath – nothing says Subi like traffic in your coffee.
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Resident Didj & Dulcimer act every Fri/Sat and I’m In for $500K
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Where’s Bayswater?
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This ‘associate’ will be spending 1% of the business investment on public art i presume? An absurdly oversized concrete “Kin Willi Stre” perhaps? Bike racks that can kill with just a look? Plants in a bathtub or something of that ilk?
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Giant goon bag on roof.
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city of bayswater, not vincent.
i don’t think public art, except in the form of dolphins, has made it that far north
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There have been some serious responses to this post! TWOP, harbinger of vibrancy.
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Will swap architectural services for beer in kind
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Will swap jerbalism skillz for drinks with hats.
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One drink, no hat, and you’ve got a deal.
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Best reason to open small bar would be so you could tell Tim Winton and Bono Butler to put shoes on or fuck off. And ties.
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Why no hat? Wait – do you mean my hat? You put the hat into hate.
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… no place to buy a bloody coffee.
Just to rub it in, the City of Bayswater made the somewhat mystifying move a year ago of providing free Wi-Fi in its self-professed “townsite”. Despite innovations such as this and the replacement of roadside bulk refuse collection with free skip bins, both material (i.e. the quarterly City newsletter) and anecdotal evidence suggest time to have stopped within COB HQ circa 1986 AD.
On a slightly different note, what I would much like to see is a Guildford Hotel style campaign in support (heh) of the historic and altogether dangerous Seventh Avenue bridge in Maylands. I’ve read and heard the phrase “a bridge too far” bandied about several times in this context, and can easily picture banners, Facebook pages, and so forth. As indolent as I am, I am nonetheless prepared to pledge my support to this imagined cause with what might hopefully become its anthem:
A Bridge Too Far
Remembering William Topaz McGonagall
There’s a little old bridge back o’ Maylands
Of timber and iron she’s made
And from good honest labour
So we’re all sworn to save her
By leaflet, protest or blockade
She’s served the good people of Maylands
For how many years who knows?
Crossing old Midland track
On her curving humpback
From Whatley to Railway she goes
The engines of progress would march
Not over but through her low arch
She brooks no interference
Despite her low clearance
Yet the bobcats and bulldozers start
The justifications we’ve heard
Of the grey bureaucrats so absurd
“Truck nor bus can go under
So we’ll tear it asunder”
No matter the heartbreak incurred
But the people have spoken, dear Colin
You’re surely not deaf to their cries
To posterity pledged
To save heritage
Listening not to your lies
For you can’t put a value on history
Nor on that ol’ bridge once she’s gone
Seventh Avenue
May mean little to you
Unlike those who call ol’ Maylands home
She’s the heart and soul of ol’ Maylands
Humble and heart-felt and proud
If wrecking ball swings
The people will sing
Your injustice and insult aloud
You can take all our hard earned in taxes
Try to regulate even the stars
But to Caesar we’ll pay
Only up to that day
You take this ole bridge all too far
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I drove across it unnecessarily last week. For old times sake.
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i drive across it regularly for pleasure.
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Good to hear, but unnecessarily? It seems incredible to me that any right-thinking citizen might prefer the Caledonian Ave railway crossing’s frankly autistic set of gates, switches and signals.
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Yes. I went out of my way. My usual crossing point would be the subway at free wifi/no coffee no small bar Baysie Beat.
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I had to recross at the (I must remember to document) vanished worst at the sausage place.
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luckily for me the seventh avenue bridge is close to home, it’s my crossing of choice.
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There is a great little coffee shop across the railway line in Baysie, just the block past the pub, it’s called The Beez Neez. Better coffe than anywhere in maylands!
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Really. Was it also a fish and chips shop? There were some grotty little shops around there. Any plans for Pabst on tap?
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yes, that one. i hear good things from friends in the neighbourhood.
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i live near the village and would LOVE a cafe here in bayswater BUT not just any old cafe.. I am very fussy with COFFEE… a good barista a MUST and definitely ambience! if it had a liquor license even better… the best shop in the village is the original grocery store at the top of the hill opposite the train station… it’s currently an eyebrow manicure salon, otherwise the vacant property at 9 & 11 king William street. Cafe for baysie for Sure!!!
btw Beez knees cafe is not the kind of cafe I’m thinking of having in the village. if I had theoney I would buy that old THAT property and do it myself…
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Beez Neez had very nice coffee, but it’s a step or 2 too far from where it’s really needed. Also, I don’t really care about the coffee. Is there no rooftop that can hold the weight of a small bar crowsd?
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yeah that would be fab!
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