The Kardomah Gang

[1][2] Regular members of the Gang included poets Charles Fisher, Dylan Thomas, Bert Trick, John Prichard and Vernon Watkins, composer and linguist Daniel Jones, artists Alfred Janes and Mervyn Levy, Mabley Owen and Tom Warner.

[1][3] The café was located opposite the offices of the South Wales Evening Post newspaper where Thomas and Fisher worked.

This was where the group drank coffee and discussed many subjects including Einstein, Epstein, Garbo, Stravinsky, death, religion and Picasso.

In a letter, dated 26 May 1934 to Pamela Hansford Johnson, Dylan Thomas writes about their first meeting in the Kardomah Café: I'm in a dreadful mess now.

The Kardomah Café reopened after the war in a new location in Portland Street, a short walk from where the original stood.