A photograph of Marions Home Bakery on Bowesfield Lane in Stockton, taken in 1985.
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A photograph of Marions Home Bakery on Bowesfield Lane in Stockton, taken in 1985.
Just wondering if anyone has anymore pictures of Marion’s Bakery? This was my great auntie Marion’s Bakery. Would love to show her more pictures.
I’m not 100% sure, but I think my Auntie Phoebe may have worked there, She lived in Woodland Street and was an accomplished cake decorator.
This shop was originally Gallons grocery store
Didn’t the parade of shops on Upsall Grove in Fairfield also have a Marions Home Bakery at one point?
Yes, during the years my family lived in Fairfield, the shop was on Upsall Grove.
I started my first job here at 16 in 1976. It was a great place to work. Frank and Marion owned it then and I was fortunate enough to be sent to college one day a week to learn the trade. Most of the people who worked there were mainly from around that area.
Some of your workmates, Ken, would have been Eddie Harrison, Bobby Small, Hughie Thompson and Mally Stirling.
You’re absolutely right, together with Alan Tupling, Billy Barwick, George Walker. Gordon Fox, Lenny Gill,Terry Shaw, Tommy Butler, Clanger Clinton, Ray Halfpenny, Joe Findley, Mauirce Tenwick, Karl Ferguson and many more who I can still clearly remember and can add further to the names already mentioned.
When I started serving my time at Whaley Engineering in Phoenix sidings I had to do the daily shop run for the blokes I worked with. I called into the Home Bakery each day for large buns, which the lads liked to make their chip butties with. Happy days.