1950s trenchcoats

Two women's trenchcoats appear in this memory of the notorious fifties nightspot Heaven and Hell, a coffee lounge in Old Compton Street. Almost next door, half of its neon clearly showing on this pic, is rival Coffee Bar 2is.

From the Classic Cafes website, with thanks:

"In 1958 the 2is was the fuse for the explosion that was to come in the world of UK Rock and Roll. It was just a little cafe with an old battered piano in the basement in Old Compton street. But it had a soul and a buzz." Adam Faith recalled: "a ground floor cafe, with linoleum floors and Formica tables it was downstairs, at night, under the street, that the real action took place - the record industry, fuelled by the skiffle craze, began to explode.

Thanks to MacJames for pointing to the pic as it appears in Yesterday's Britain, London, 1998, Reader's Digest.