It's hard to imagine when walking around the bustling Northern Quarter of today, but when artist couple Wayne Lew and Jane Spindler decided to open their own artisan coffee and tea shop in Manchester it was one of the first of its kind. Back in 2010 they decided to open North Tea Power to showcase speciality espresso coffees and loose leaf tea.
And thus, a Northern Quarter institution was born. North Tea Power would go on to pave the way for what would become a coffee house boom in the Northern Quarter.
But on Sunday, the Tib Street cafe will fire up the espresso machine and the milk frothers for the last time. Victims of a "perfect storm" of financial factors, Wayne and Jane have decided they could simply not survive for another summer.
