Hi Stan, the Mark Toneys on Percy street opened its doors in the mid 1930s. Tge Grainger street parlour opened in the early 1960s. I wonder if you were at what is now the City Tavern on Northumberland Road which was a cafe in the 1950s with a number of names including the cottage before becoming Carricks. Both had waitresses in the black and white. I cannot find a Dickens Tea rooms listing for Newcastle so far on Percy Street.