Hundreds of items from Georgian coffeehouse unearthed in Cambridge

Archaeologists excavating cellar find it full of bottles, crockery, jars and pipes from 18th-century Clapham's coffeehouse

Clapham's Coffeehouse closed down 250 years ago, no doubt to the anguish of its regulars who met at the site in Cambridge to swap news and gossip, as well as drink cups of coffee and delicate china bowls of tea.

Against the traditional image of a Georgian coffeehouse, they also drank ale and wine and consumed hearty meals, or revived their drooping spirits with nourishing glasses of calf's foot jelly.