Low Tide Coffee House in Seaham to open this weekend

Low Tide Coffee House on North Terrace in Seaham will be ready to welcome in customers from Saturday (February 28) after more than a month of work.

Husband and wife duo Sarah and Garry Jeffrey from Seaham took over the unit, formerly known as The Featherbed Café in December and since then have poured their life savings into renovating and making it their own.

Low Tide Coffee House, North Terrace, Seaham. (Image: SARAH CALDECOTT)

Pictures show the outside of the café, including its door, has been painted a light green colour and black signage has been put up.

Sarah, a British Army veteran, previously told The Northern Echo that she’s hoping the café can become a “lifeline” for the community.

The 46-year-old said: “We just said right, let’s go for it. We’ve poured our life savings into it.

“It’s a big leap, a massive step and a massive hole in our pockets but I want to give back to the community.

“I would like it to become a safe place for the elderly to come and see a smiling face and have a cup of coffee.

“It can be a lifeline where people can meet friends.”

Sarah and Garry Jeffrey from Seaham. (Image: SARAH JEFFREY)

She added: “So many people have been looking through the window at what we are doing and have said they are glad we are opening.

“I feel like I’m bursting with pride, it makes me feel so warm and nice inside.”

But that’s not all the building is being utilised for – as well as the café, Sarah’s other passion, pole fitness, is represented by High Tide Fitness, which is already up and running.

The mum-of-one added: “My whole thought process when leaving the army was to be a mum to my son, but I also really wanted to teach pole fitness.

“I opened up a studio in Skelton and then one in Sunderland but it burned down after a fire at a nearby business in December.

“It was two doors up from us – on December 3, my son’s 17th birthday, we got a call that everything had burned, just before Christmas.

“There is a lot of stigma around pole fitness. I know where it originated from but we don’t do any of the heel work. I don’t teach any of that.

“My teaching is more about empowerment which is a massive thing especially with women.”