On a recent visit to Avoncroft Museum I was delighted to find at least three items from Warwickshire (and may have missed others). This museum has historic buildings (rescured from ...
This is another fascinating record of social history. The photograph is dated 1907 and at a glance, the buildings and their appearance, the clothes of the people and even the ...
I have previously discussed the history of our family bakery up until the end of the 1950s. Here, I would like to conclude its story.
David Hugh Pails, born in 1963 ...
November 14th 1940. The City suffered a 12 hour blitz. All the bakeries were put out of production. There were no supplies of gas or electricity and the water supply was ...
The local association appeared to have been formed in 1903 according to the minutes.
The Annual General Meeting was held on January 5th 1904 and 12 officers were elected.
By September 14th ...
Earlier, I described the history of the building which housed our family bakery in Chapelfields. In this section, I would like to explore the background of my family who worked ...
The bakery closed on August 1st 2008 after trading for 110 years, and had been run by four generations of the Pails family. It was established in 1898 when Alfred Hugh ...
On a recent visit to Charlecote Park I watched people in Victorian costume at work in the kitchen.
Ragging
One was ‘ragging’ – making new items from recycled pieces of material. You may ...
My father, Clifford Charles Oliver worked for H & T Taylor, Bakers of Attleborough (at the top of Lister Street). He was born in 1923 and married his wife Ethel ...
(continued from the Master Bakers of Coventry)
The ‘property’ of the Bakers’ Company was handed over to the Corporation of Coventry by Mr Thomas Windridge, c.1908.
It consists of:
Three books of minutes ...
On browsing through the minutes of the Coventry & District Master Bakers Association, which are kept in the City Archives, I found many interesting items relating to the bakery trade ...
My paternal grandfather Mr Tom Pratt was a member of the Pratt family who were farmers in the area of Lighthorne and Chesterton since the 1700s. His uncle John Pratt ...
Butchers shops
Mr. Alcock’s at the corner of the High Street is now Phoenix House. An earlier butcher there was Mr. Horley. Next door, at the house opposite the Co-op, was Mr. ...
