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sellars bakers
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Photo: fred foster
Item #: 6036
Where abouts on Billinge Rd was it Fred? I cant remember it.
Fred I used to get pies off their driver John, He went on to work as a manager in Whelans first wigan shop near the Park Hotel.
It was half way down Billinge Rd almost across from the entrance to Alexandra Crescent.
10 thousand pies a day seems a little unbelievable from at tiny bakery.Could it not be 500 a day?
I know the owner, probably he could clarify when i next see him.
We produced 10 racks of each, 21 trays to a rack and 21 pies to a tray and that is 4000 approx, plus a further 2 racks of medium pork pies and a rack of small pork pies, also pasties and family sized steak and family pork pies.I realise that I was a bit out on the estimated production, my maths arn't as good as they were!
Was this shop the old Sellars Bakers, halfway along Billinge Road
considering we (us wiganers) are quite well up on pies, ive Not seen many photos of pie shops, lol. one of the best has recently closed, whittles, at the end of tunstall lane, [photos please] thanks.
Eric Sellars, the last of Sellars Bros, died in December 2009.aged 78