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Offline purdy

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Crown Steam Bakery
« on: Sunday 22 May 11 14:33 BST (UK) »
Does any one have any info about Crown Steam Bakery i think it was Willenhall Walsall area only i have a photo of my dad with a horse and cart for that bakery i no in the 1950s he worked for grants bakery Willenhall and i woundered if it was the same company
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Re: Crown Steam Bakery
« Reply #1 on: Sunday 22 May 11 14:47 BST (UK) »
Grant's Bakery was formally A J Grant (Willenhall) Ltd - you can see a 1930s advertisement here:
http://www.localhistory.scit.wlv.ac.uk/articles/Willenhall/Industry.htm

There was a Crown Steam Bakery which in 1954 was owned by Wimbush's:  it's mentioned here:
http://www.madeinbirmingham.org/mibnewsletter.html.

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Re: Crown Steam Bakery
« Reply #2 on: Friday 27 May 11 20:26 BST (UK) »
Thanks for that
 Purdy
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