The Old Bakery - High Street - Braunston, Northamptonshire - UK Historical Markers on Waymarking.com

"In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries the High Street was a hive of commerce with at least six pubs and a variety of shops including butchers, a bakery, a fishmonger, an ironmonger, a soap boiler and a potato merchant. Surviving house names - such as 'the Old Bakery' [its former use made even more obvious by the 'HOVIS' sign!], 'The Old Harrow', 'The Old Forge' and 'The Old Maltings' - offer strong suggestions as to the original location of some of these services."

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You can recognise "The Old Bakery" from the Hovis sign. Bread was baked here until 1999. The original bakery was family owned, together with a farm, for grain and the windmill, for flour. It is a cruck style house where the oven was also used on Sunday to cook meat brought by local cottagers. Scratched graffiti on the wall by the front door records the names and initials of old village residents.

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Type of Historic Marker: Old Sign Give your Rating: Historical Marker Issuing Authority: Not listed Age/Event Date: Not listed Related Website: Not listed

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