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Farndon Village Buildings
The Old Bakery
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The Old Bakery
The former bakery buildings are likely to have been built in the early eighteenth century as agricultural cottages for the local farms that once surrounded the High Street area. However, they did not become a bakery until the late nineteenth century. During the second half of the century the village bakery was centred at the grocer stores owned by the Harrison family (situated next to the Nag's Head/Lewis's Cafe).
Emmanuel Sperring (shown on the 1901 census below) came from Oswestry and married Esther Thomas, daughter of a Farndon carter, in 1878. Two of Esther's brothers were already working as baker's apprentices for Harrison, William Thomas actually living on the High Street premises. Emmanuel was already a baker by the time of his marriage, and was probably employed by Harrison, leading to him meeting Esther through her brothers.
By 1901, they were living in the building now known as the Old Bakery, where they no doubt set up their own concern, possibly now supplying Harrisons. However, a new opportunity swiftly arose to run a bakery in Wrexham, and shorty afterwards they relocated.
After their passing, Dick Stones, grandson of James Richard Stones, continued to run the bakery, although by 1980 he was by then selling antiques and curios. Today the Old Bakery is a private residence. |
Stones family resting places and memorials, St Chad's Churchyard, Farndon
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