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I am working between two threads here, as erontquay has started another thread connected to all this, on Handbags which I suppose is really where it should be now.
The names you mention ,do strike a chord. My Mother came to work at Bailies soon after they opened, that would be about 1939. George kept writing to her, Saying "can ye no come down Gwen, as I canna understand these Wigan Lassies" She eventually gave in and came down to take over the bakehouse. She met my Father, who was working for Conroys at the time, (their storage was at the back of Bailies).I was born in 1950. In between, George's wife had died and he eventually married Mary who also worked in the bakehouse, as did my Aunt by marriage, Jenny Ollerton.
After my birth my mother helped out when it was busy, I spent many happy hours in the bakehouse and restaurant Kitchens, While she was Icing the wedding cakes etc. and I am sure I remember those names.