Bakery in FOD (General)
by MJL 
, Monday, June 21, 2010, 20:02 (5346 days ago)
Does anyone know of a bakery/bakehouse in the area in about 1910.
My father told me he was taken to visit relatives when he was very young, he said he could stand under the ovens to keep warm.
My family names are Gardner and Kent, but there may be others too.
Regards,
MJL
Bakery in FOD
by slowhands , proud of his ancient Dean Forest roots, Monday, June 21, 2010, 20:39 (5346 days ago) @ MJL
There are/were a number to consider - Young's in Cinderford, Hawkins in Cinderford.....
Any idea where the Baker might have been ?
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Bakery in FOD
by MJL , Monday, June 21, 2010, 21:11 (5346 days ago) @ MJL
No idea at all, I would think that every village had one or more bakeries at that time, I was just hoping that I would recognize a name or place.
Bakers in Coleford 1902
by slowhands , proud of his ancient Dean Forest roots, Monday, June 21, 2010, 21:29 (5346 days ago) @ MJL
1902 Coleford
HAWKINS Henry, baker, Market place
JONES Percy Alexander, grocer & baker, Gloucester road
PONT & ADAMS, bakers & grocers, St. John street
ROWLINS Martha (Mrs.), baker, Lane end
WHITTINGTON William, grocer, baker & provision dealer, Broadwell Lane end
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Bakery in FOD
by MJL , Monday, June 21, 2010, 22:02 (5346 days ago) @ MJL
Thanks slowhands, none of the names ring a bell, I've tried to find it on the Historical Directories website but no luck there either.
Bakery in FOD
by admin 
, Forest of Dean, Tuesday, June 22, 2010, 02:15 (5346 days ago) @ MJL
On this Web site.
Kelly's Directory 1879 of the Forest of Dean and Surrounding Areas
http://www.forest-of-dean.net/?Kellys_Directory_1879
These records list many shop owners but relate to earlier years than you mentioned. You may however be able to pick up something from them.
Bakery in FOD
by MJL , Tuesday, June 22, 2010, 10:02 (5345 days ago) @ MJL
A few possibles.
findmypast website:
1911
Ernest Gardner, baker, Gloucester. born 1890
1901
Job Gardner, baker, Gloucester. born 1854,
Thomas Gardner, baker, born 1860.
1911
Albert Lane, baker, Coleford. born 1870 in Mon.
Bakery in FOD
Another family run bakery was Knights Bakery at Ruardean.
Also Moore Bros, The Triangle, Cinderford, not sure of it name prior to this.
Bakery in FOD
by MJL , Tuesday, June 22, 2010, 21:24 (5345 days ago) @ unknown
Thank you forest, although my family names of Gardner and Lane crop up as bakers, perhaps they worked at the places you have mentioned.
Wherever it was I think my father must have been captivated by the smell of fresh baked bread, at the age of 14 he was apprenticed to a baker for four years and later become a Master Baker.
Bakery in FOD
You are right that villages had bakery - My great grand mother Sarah Jane FISHPOOL is stated as Baker on the 1911 census Working at home At Grape Cottages Gorsley. This bakery was continued by her son Ernie and I remember him baking in the 50's.
Bakery in FOD
by Brian Meek , Saturday, June 26, 2010, 17:40 (5341 days ago) @ unknown
I can remember 2 bakers shops from the 1950's. One in High St, Drybrook, called Smiths Bakers, and one at Morse Cross, Morse Rd, owned by the Hunt family, on the road from Nailbridge to Ruardean.
Smiths Bakers in Drybrook delivered bread etc, to many places around the Forest, including Micheldean, Longhope, and Huntley.
Bakery in FOD
by Margaret May , Friday, July 02, 2010, 22:51 (5335 days ago) @ Brian Meek
In Lydbrook there was Reg Fear Baker at Viaduct Stores, Beards Bakery, Central Lydbrook. On Joys Green Bert Harvey was the baker at the Post Office. My husband's first job when he left School in 1947 was helping make the bread, he delivered it around the Moorwood and the Coppice with a donkey which had baskets known as pots on his sides, when the donkey felt hungary he would put his head around and help himself to a loaf!