Another old bakery in Knight Street established in 1844,the family had one at 13 Green St in 1785 and after 10 generations are still baking in Stamford as Hambleton Bakery,making organic bread with just the original 4 ingredients instead of the modern loaf of 8 and counting.
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Hello, I worked there for 7 years up to the time it closed 1978 I think, drove past there last night and they have started to demolish the building.
Had some great times there started when I was 15 the manager was Joe Kelly and his assistant manager was Billy Webb there was a supervisor there called Lilly Porter, always wondered what became of the workers that I worked with.
I used to park my motorbike in the boiler yard opposite the entrance that we all went in to clock on.
Great memories.
Hope this helps
Kenny
Thanks GD, a great pic and a fascinating bit of local history too. 1785 - the bakers would have been working hand-in-glove with the local windmails back then? Everything produced in the neighbourhood, for the neighbourhood.
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Would love to see more pics of this bakery or video's
My auntie May worked in Reeces too , we used to get the bus all the way to Netherly on a Sunday for a lemon Merangue pie !!
I'll have to put em up on a new account.
Went past here yesterday - they've started on the demolition. I doubt very much that the boiler house will be kept for any reason. Another strange land mark in Liverpool will go down the pan.
My Mum and Auntie used to work in the Hawke street site, I remember finishing school at St Nicks and pegging across the road to see them.
My cousin and myself snuck in there and we were by some pipes (must be the boiler room) and he pulled a lever (he still says I pulled the lever) and got scalded by steam and rushed the ozzy.
We never got in there again after that
Went past this site on the 79 bus on Friday and was saddened to see that most of the Boiler House has been demolished. The chimney was standing up until that point but I suspect that it too has now gone.
It's a real shame that this small building wasn't left standing and done something with to show our working past - but I suppose the council couldn't make any money from doing that.
Now the 79 bus route won't take in this building, nor the single white building at the back of the Royal Hospital.
Both were not major architectural feats, just another part of Liverpool History.
Had a walk past the Boiler house and its gone.
Most of the buildings gone now the canteen area is still standing.
Same all over the town really our heritage is slowly eroding for the more modern look which I dont really like.
The Pier Head is a prime example of change, how different that looks today.
I found this blog after looking up Reece's on Google because my Grandfather, who died in the mid-sixties, was a painter and decorator as well as a signwriter, and he told me he designed the Reece's logo.
Strangely, I live only seconds away from the Adelphi and the Hawke Street site, and never knew about the bakery, but have been watching the demolition of the site over the past months.
Thank you all so much for the information, and is it possible to see the photographs that have been removed/deleted anywhere else, please?
Hi Felicity , try Ged Fagans site inacityliving , he has some fantastic photo's on there ...
I spelled it wrong , it's corrected now .
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