These very interesting then and now photos show the popular Forte's Cafe in Weymouth and its present day incarnation as a Wetherspoons pub.

The venue, at 1 Frederick Place, is fondly remembered as a meeting place for young people. 

From the 1920s until the 1970s, the building housed Forte’s Soda and Milk Bar and this picture above, taken in the 1950s, shows a queue of people outside Fortes keen to get an ice-cream!

Back then Forte's in Weymouth was originally owned by Alfonso and Carolina Forte then sold to Antonio and Clementina Fusco (née Forte).

Here, you can see the same building in a recent photo in its current guise as the William Henry Wetherspoons pub.

Fortes Café is now the William Henry Wetherspoons pub Fortes Café is now the William Henry Wetherspoons pub (Image: James Brown) The soda and milk bar even had its own namesake gang - the Forte’s mob, who met at Forte’s Café in the 1950s and 1960s.

A queue would regularly form outside Forte's of people waiting to buy softy freeze ice-creams from a window at the front. 

1 Frederick Place was originally part of a terrace of 12 houses, built in 1834 in the gardens of Gloucester Lodge. It was owned by Prince William Henry, Duke of Gloucester, and brother of George III.

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Readers have fond memories of the building as a hang-out when it was Forte’s Café.

One said: "Back in the day, long before mobile phones this is the place we all used to meet up with our friends Forte's corner, now Wetherspoons!"

Another says: "I used to spend hours there over one cup of tea!"

David White tells us: "My mother was a waitress there until 1962, we would get a knickerbockerglory!"

Nigel Apsey knew the cafe very well. He writes: I worked there as a summer job in the late 60s. The doughnut factory downstairs was our favourite when sorting the empty bottles."