Longhope Bakery, the Green's Bakery at Huntley and Ivy Cotta (General)

by hawkyboy, Monday, July 20, 2015, 07:49 (3408 days ago)

Do any of the good folks on the Forum have ideas on who owned, and who staffed, the Longhope Bakery from around 1850 please?

The name Harry Clayson has been mentioned to me for the 1950s when I think the bakery closed. Sissy Clayson was, I believe, the daughter of Harry. Sissy married a Mr Richards. I think Mr Richards a mechanic at one of the garages in Huntley?

Green's Bakery in Huntley employed Harry after the Longhope closure. Did the Green's own the Longhope Bakery? Or did they purchase it and close it down? Perhaps it closed because modernisation after 1945 meant that this area could be supplied with bread and cakes from Huntley?

I am told that Green's persisted with horse delivery into the 1950s but I am thinking that vans were being used from 1935 onwards. I know that a horse and delivery cart were available in 1947 but I do not know who, if anybody, used this.

There was also a three wheeled delivery bike - I do not have details, nor who rode it, nor where it was used.

For Longhope Bakery I recall the names Gingell and Williams mentioned years ago.

The Green's owned a cottage that Harry lived in. I do not know the arrangement - rent or work in lieu of some rent? nor do I know the time span that Harry was in the cottage. This was Ivy Cottage in Huntley.

Green's Bakery closed in the early 1960s. I do not have date, nor do I know what became of Harry Clayson and other staff. I recall the names but not details of staff including the Williams, Percy Hall, Fred Foley and Percy Open.

The Green's were taking in baker's boys and future apprentices through the orphanage at Ashley Down. Perhaps the girls working in the shop and as servants came from here. I do not know if this was common practice at that time.

Going off track somewhat, I believe that Ivy Cottage was rented to a Bryn Davies and family after Harry left. Bryn may have been a driver for Red and White buses passing through Huntley - this is my childhood memory.

My first post on the Forum - perhaps I have got carried away with too many questions!