Black and White Café

The Black and White Café was a cafe in St Pauls, Bristol in the United Kingdom, opened in 1971.[1] It had a notorious reputation as a drug den and was raided more times by the police than any other premises in the country.

Events during a 1980 police raid on the cafe were a catalyst in the St Pauls riot.[1]

The cafe remained a centre for drug dealing and violent turf wars through the 1990s, to a peak in the early 2000s.[2]

It closed for good in 2004[3] and has since been demolished.

References

  1. 1 2 "Infamous cafe could close". BBC. 28 January 2003. Retrieved 19 October 2012.
  2. ↑ The Guardian: Britain's most dangerous hard drug den
  3. ↑ Jason Bennetto (25 June 2004). "Legendary Jamaican drugs cafe is closed". The Independent. Retrieved 21 March 2016.

Coordinates: 51°27′52″N 2°34′57″W / 51.4645°N 2.5824°W / 51.4645; -2.5824

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