Rathbones bread

Does a Rathbones loaf still exist. And if not when was the last one baked.

This is what Wiki says, I-Spy:

Rathbones Bakeries was a bakery founded in 1893, in Wigan, Lancashire. By 1997 it was owned by Greencore, through that company's purchase of Kears Group. Two years later, Kears Group rebranded itself as Rathbones.

Kears was bought from Greencore by Finedon Mill of Northampton, for £20.6 million in April 2004, a year in which it had sales of £100 million, with customers including Morrisons and Tesco. Following a fire the company went into receivership, with part of its operation sold to Warburtons and parts to Morrisons in 2005.

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ps sorry about the ?s. They were crotchets when I submitted the post, but the site has rendered them into question marks!

Anyone know if there is any connection with the Rathbone family of Liverpool?

I'm just trying to establish the age of the loaf I found at the bottom of my freezer. Wonder if it's ok for toast.
Found 2 Xmas puddings as well

Sounds like you shouldn’t toast your frozen bread but take it to the Antique Loaf Show, I-Spy.

Yes, because it might be worth a lot of money

Antique loaf

Money for (c)old loaf.

It's a thick sliced - could add to the value . Could end up with plenty dough ??

Welcome back.

Jarvo
Thought I'd try to catch you up.cheers

Eatin' Rathbones bread,
your shit's like lumps o'lead,
you fart like thunder,
no bloody wonder,
eatin' Rathbones bread !

O Tonker.... You silver tongued devil.

I bought one with Basils name on it so I thought.

But It only said Thick Cut.

That's an old one, and the best thing is you can say it about anyone you hate.

Won't be long.

What about the 2 Xmas puddings, I-Spy, perhaps those could be more fruitful.

Apparently Xmas pud will last for ever.
If you and scousehubby would like to be guinea pigs just say.
But if he's an evertonian the offer is withdrawn. We need every supporter we can get

has anyone else noticed that, when you are travelling up Warrington Road and you get just beyond skew bridge, there is that smell of baking bread,
Where is it coming from ?

Rathbones bread,
tastes like lead
if you eat it,
you drop dead.

they put summut in it
and makes me wonder
when ive ate it
I fart like thunder,

Does anyone remember Halls bread?
They had a bakery in Wigan.

Tom said:

"has anyone else noticed that, when you are travelling up Warrington Road and you get just beyond skew bridge, there is that smell of baking bread,
Where is it coming from ?

Yes I have smelled that and I thought it was the ghost of Rathbones Bakery

It is actually coming from the Five Star Bakery on the Stephens Way Estate, and the bakery is actually just behind the houses on Warrington Road, which are opposite the garage and the junction with Tyrer Avenue, so it is only a few yards away from Warrington Road

thanks tommy, I too thought it was the ghost of rathbones, , everyday is a skool day,

Cheshirepuss said:

"Does anyone remember Halls bread?
They had a bakery in Wigan"

Yes I do remember Halls bread, and do you know where their bakery was located, because it either closed down or changed hands in the early 1970s but I never knew where they came from.

Thanks very much, I-Spy. My husband’s not an Evertonian but we wouldn’t deprive you of your Xmas pud.

Tommy Two Stroke
"Yes I do remember Halls bread, and do you know where their bakery was located,"
Yes I do.
I had Spirograph on toast from next door
Thats a clue for you where it was.

Cheshirecat

Yoo have given me a headache tonight

Now I have worked out from dooing a lot of Googling, that Halls Bakery was in part of the Pagefield/Gidlow Mills building on Walkden Avenue, and I am guessing now, but your spirograph remark may refer to cheese ?

And there was a cheese manufacturer in Wigan, and the owner lived on Wigan Lane, so I am thinking was there maybe have been a cheese factory at the side of Halls Bakery

I buy a Rathbones thick sliced loaf every week. Brunch on Boxing Day, turkey, sage and onion and mayonnaise on toasted thick sliced Warburtons. Beautiful. A favourite in our house for years.

Was Halls bakery in New Springs?

There was a cheese shop on gidlow lane

Cheese Shop!

I won't click, but a guess would be a Monty Python sketch?

I clicked, amd guess what?
Did you know that sketch was performed in the cheese shop on Gidlow lane?
Not a lot of people know that.

I remember someone saying that some of the night shift used to run across to the jawbone on there first break.

I don't think the Monty Python crew did night shift?

They did a few late nights, I'll be bound.

TTS - I think you are correct that Halls Bakery was on Walkden Avenue (as I lived nearby!) and remember the smells when walking past to go to school.
The cheese factors were Hughes Bros (relatives of ours!) but I do not think they had any connection with Halls. Their shop was initially on Gidlow Lane near the " Henhole" pub.

fedup

Thank you and that name is their name, but I never knew where they had the cheese factory or shop.

Yoo can't beat having a nice piece of cheese

Did they have a daughter, possibly named Susan?

No,, the daughters name was Freya and they had a lad called Leicester

Leicester??? Are you sure the daughter wasn’t Feta.

His joke was almost a gouda n

Tread Caerphilly.

Halls bakery was indeed in Walkden Avenue but is now apartments.

Harvey’s bakery was in Cale Lane Whelley. They later became part of Hovis.
The bakery was demolished in the early 2000’s and became a housing estate.

Harvey’s bakery was situated at the Manley street end of Harvey street, Lower Ince before the move to Cale lane. All the grocers shops along Warrington road used to pop in whenever they ran out of bread.

I had a summer job there in 1981 during wakes week. Worst job of my life. I asked one of the regulars where he brought his bread from (they got discounted price bread) and he told me Warburtons! Never buy bread rolls if they aren't joined together

Looks like we’ve got foreigners on here now?

Speak English!

I'm from Billinge

Billinge is not far enough south to call barm cakes “rolls”.
And, the past participle of “buy” is “bought”. Not brought.
Your colleague did not bring his bread, he bought it. Tha’sees!

Even in Billinge!

When I was talking about rolls I meant 'sultana batches', but equally applicable to other individually portioned bread products. If they aren't connected, it's probably been on the floor and picked up and repackaged and you don't want to know what was on the floor

I used to eat barm cakes, but they don't exist where I live now

muskus

Billinge Higher End with us Wiganers or Billinge Chapel End with the Scousers?

“Batch”?????

You’re goin’ worse!!!!

And don’t you start, Owd Codswallop, with your “scousers”. You wouldn’t know a scouser if one smacked thee in t’gob!
You can’t compare Wiganers with Scousers.
You should’ve said “us Mancs and the scousers”.
Wiganers are from Wigan, not Billinge!

That's what Ratbones called them, not my name, they were like mini American footballs, ideal for throwing at people.

Well hospital, but my family owns the house on Billinge Rd just up from Simms Lane, they always called it Billinge as opposed to Simms Lane and that family goes back a long time, so they would know.
They had a farm up at Higher end, but seem to moved to mining in the 1800's. My other grandparents were from Garswood/Downall Green area

Me, my parents moved to Bryn so when people say where are you from, I say Wigan as that's where I usually went but I think Billinge sounds posher.

This was before all this GM/Merseyside nonsense (I refuse to recognise it) - I never met a real scouser till I was 16 and I'm not a Manc either

tonker

My apologies as I forgot that people now living in the St Helen Council area which is now part of Merseyside don't like being called scousers.

I should have simply asked mucker, Higher End or Chapel End!

If you were brought up in Bryn (and that’s just a fictitious place) you’re from Ashton in Makerfield. Regardless of where you “went”.

I “went” everywhere, but I grew up in Haydock!

I'm not divisive and picking sides. The Balmers came from Higher End, but they moved about and are buried at Birchley St Mary's (they are on record as being one of the original sponsors). One of them lived in Rant for a time because he fell out with his father and he married a Melling. When I was little, all Billinge was full of locals speaking 'Billinge dialect' and there were no estates.

As I said, I don't recognise any post 1970's changes, there are Wigan and St Helens only. The other two places are miles away and of no concern to me

Bryn isn't fictitious, why do you say that? (I only lived there from age 5)

Wasn’t Aggie’s on Warrington Road, in Ashton?

It was, we used to sneak out of Edmund Arrowsmith at lunchtime and eat them in area above the stage in the assembly hall, no one looked there.

Never heard of it!
That is, until I was about 35, and my cousin married a girl from next door to it.
Do you want me to tell you why Bryn isn’t a real place?

Yes please, I'm curious

The name of the town is Ashton in Makerfield. Has been since 1086.
One of the Gerards, in the 14th century, was given an estate of land. In Ashton in Makerfield.
He named his estate, ‘Bryn Park’, Bryn for short.
It stretched from the A49, Park Road, Ashton, (named after Bryn park), to Bolton Road, Ashton.
Both ends of his estate were gated. Land Gate and Bryn Gate.
That was ‘Bryn’.
The name has now been adopted, slowly but surely, to include the surrounding area, but it has no official boundaries, because it isn’t an official place.
There is, nowadays, a local authority electoral area (a ward) named Bryn. It has marked boundaries, but it’s not a ‘place’.
It’s all Ashton in Makerfield.

Ha Ha, fair enough, can't argue with that, I've seen it before.

I'd rather be from Billinge or Ashton anyway

I thought you were going to debate what is a 'real place' in terms of nominalism vs realism

It’s like Leigh and St. Helens. They don’t exist either.
Anyway, I’m going to bed now. I can’t keep my eyes open any longer!

I get what you mean ...

We had a song about Rathbones bread when I was young.
Rathbones delightful bread.
Feels like lead.
No bloody wonder you F**t like thunder.
With Rathbones delightful bread.
The last time I did try a sandwich made from that bread, it was awful. It wasn't at my house either.

The song went …..

Eating Rathbone’s bread,
your shit’s like lumps of lead,
you fart like thunder,
no bloody wonder,
eating Rathbone’s bread!