As far as I can remember, by the time I was born in 1946 my grandparents were retired. However, my grandfather, a baker by trade, loved to tell me stories of how life was at the bakery at Pool Valley. He would rise around 4.30am and do all his baking. By 7.30 or 8am he was out with his horse and cart selling hot bread and rolls (the bakers dozen) to the big houses and hotels along the sea front. Mum told that in the afternons he sometimes would collect her and her brother from school with the horse and cart. Not called a cart. More like a handsome cab - 'cart' sounds too crude. I no longer have any pictures of this handsome gentleman but do wonder if this could have been the shop he referred to. His surname was Ransom. My grandmother had a haberdashery shop inside or alongside his bakery. Anyone remember anything more?

There are more photographs of 'Ye Olde Bunn Shoppe' on my web site at www.cowleyfamily.org.uk. Sandra - if you read this comment, please make contact through my web site. I would love to hear more of your family memories about the bakery which was owned in the mid-1800s by my great, great grandfather, Francis Cowley, and which was taken over by his daughter, Caroline, after his death in 1881.

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