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Where have all the bakers (and traditional grocery staples of your youth) gone? (Long time passing). 🍰🍞🥧

Where have all the bakers gone?

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NB this was my GG Grandfathers Bakery in Kensington, he drank them into poverty eventually

Wow @butcher Look at the flags and stuff! Amazing. Is the building still there?

I reckon this is the same place

I'm a bit late to this, but yes, 11 Kensington High Street.

'feel' of the photo is 1890s.

Can't get an exact match on the neighbours from the london street directories that have been digitised and in public domain, but -

1882

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1895

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1910

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(and not there in 1841)
 
Those lists are fantastic - court dressmaker, complexion specialist and American confectioners - would have loved a mosey along the street.
 
Anyone remember Three Cooks bakery? It was a chain. When I worked in Stylo in the Merrion centre in Leeds in the 80's all our lunches came from there, a sandwich and a vanilla slice. When I was down South (and when I was younger and could still tolerate wheat 😭) I loved to get a sausage roll from Percy Ingles. I also loved Dorringtons bakery in Sawbridgeworth, it's still going!
 
They're not. They're both artisan and chains. And AFAIK blackbird doesn't sell bread.

What I have just realised is Blackbird have shops at Streatham and Balham and South East from here, whereas Cavan has a shop in Wimbledon and West of there.
Both are similar sized small chains. I wonder if there is some sort of agreement between them?
 
We've still got a local bakers in Sunny Shepton Mallet . . . Danela's Bakery . . . home of the Shepton Bun, which is a true baking delight, a cross between a:-
  • rock cake for general appearance
  • fruit scone
  • doughy, like a hot cross bun
  • Christmassy spices
Best eaten, split, lightly toasted, with butter num num num
 

What I have just realised is Blackbird have shops at Streatham and Balham and South East from here, whereas Cavan has a shop in Wimbledon and West of there.
Both are similar sized small chains. I wonder if there is some sort of agreement between them?

Cavan is in Shepperton, I’m on my way there now. It’s a very fine bakers.
 
I don’t like the prices or the attitude of the staff in any Gail’s I have been stupid enough to venture into.
At the prices they charge the fuckers could at least be a bit polite.
 
We've still got a local bakers in Sunny Shepton Mallet . . . Danela's Bakery . . . home of the Shepton Bun, which is a true baking delight, a cross between a:-
  • rock cake for general appearance
  • fruit scone
  • doughy, like a hot cross bun
  • Christmassy spices
Best eaten, split, lightly toasted, with butter num num num
Also providing bakery goods at Glastonbury Festival
 
Bought a loaf of seedy bread from a small chain bakery the other day and it came with one of those square plastic bag ties that used to be ubiquitous when I was young - not seen those for years.
 
Still mostly local bakeries, butchers etc up here. They tend to have their own shop or two in somewhere like Kirkwall or Stromness but they also do regular deliveries to all the local shops. Even the big Tesco's in town has a shelf for one of the local bakers that seems to be at least as popular as their own in-store bakery stuff. We don't really have any of the big chains like Greggs.

Both my local shops sell stuff from at least three Orkney bakeries, two local butchers and Pierowall Fish who also do frozen stuff like patties and readymade fish pies. Wide range of standard items like proper bread, the usual Scottish bridies, tattie scones etc and also more local things like bere bannock and fatty cutties. Eggs and tatties mostly come from local farms and shops always make a point of advertising when other fruit and veg is from here too.
 
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