| IAN HAGGERTY |
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CAN ANYONE REMEMBER THIS BAKERY? IN 1978 I USED TO GO FROM SCHOOL 4 UNTIL 6. WHEN I ARRIVED I USED TO WASH UP AND THEN SCRAPE ALL THE FLOUR AND DOUGH FROM THE FLOOR. MR CHANTRELL WAS A FORMIDABLE MAN (TO A 15 YEAR OLD SCHOOLBOY) ON SATURDAYS I WOULD DO A 5 HOUR STINT WHICH INCLUDED GREASING THE BREAD TINS, AT 10 WE WOULD HAVE A CUPPA, THEN FRED WOULD GET THE SAUSAGES FROM THE OVEN, WE WOULD HAVE THEM IN FRESH BAPS. SOON AFTER MR CHANTRELL WOULD START GETTING THE BREAD FROM THE OVEN, I WOULD TAP OUT THE LOAVES AND PUT THEM ON THE BREAD TRAYS WHERE THEY WOULD BE TAKEN UPSTAIRS, WOE BETIDE ANY OF THE SHOPGIRLS WHO GOT IN THE WAY OF MR CHANTRELL AS HE REACHED INTO THE OVEN, THERE WAS NO STOPPING HIM! MY FAVOURITE JOBS WERE HAND ROLLING BREAD ROLLS AND MAKING SAUSAGES. THE FREE CAKES WERE A BONUS.
Kate: Yes, thanks Ian - I remember Chantrells Bakery and used to pop in to buy a cake for my lunch break when I used to work nearby.
It was very popular and those cakes were scrumptious.
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| Dave |
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Paul Chantrell sold up a few years ago. Fed up with having to get up before most people went to bed I suppose.
Kate: Good point Dave must have done it for years before he decided enough was enough.
Anyone else got something to tell us about Chantrells and their bread, pies and cakes?
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| Frances |
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I remember Chantrells as I was brought upin stamford - Great bakery - great smells!! shame the London lot have sanitised everywhere and taken over to 'improve' the town!!
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| Peter |
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I well remember the bakery as I lived opposite for many years. Also used to deliver milk there as a schoolboy working for Sid Woods from Newstead. Wonderful place to be on a cold and frosty morning especially during the winter of '63. Seems another world away now.
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| john freear |
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OK, Chantrells; but who remembers Tylers, before it was Chantrells, and can anyone remember who's shop it was before that, I can't but someone might?
Similarly does anyone remember Dickinsons pork butchers in St Georges street, Flacks general grocers at the west end of St Leonards St. Mrs Holmes, The Nix's shop, Mr Good, all the last three in Scotgate area. My my my how much water has flowed under the bridge!!!
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| Vic |
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Yes John, I remember Mrs Nix's shop in Scotate very well. In the early 1950's my parents used it as their main grocery shop (very much pre-supermarket!). I remember the crates of tizer just inside the door.
When we moved to Drift Road the relationship continued. The people who took the shop over from Mrs Nix carried on where she left off. (I forget their name maybe someone can supply it) I know there was a husband and wife and son. I well remember the husband would call at our house on a Friday night to collect our order to be delivered the next day - at no extra charge. How about that for service.
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| Peter |
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Frank "Piggy" Dickinson produced the finest ham in Stamford which made the perfect sandwich when combined with Chantrells bread. In the early 60's he took over Aughton's shop in St Paul's St. If you were of a mind you could always pop over to Bill Pauley's for a salad to go with the sandwich and get a bottle of beer from the Half Moon to wash it all down.
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| Jackie |
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Regarding Mr Good in Scotgate, Good's newsagents. He was my uncle. I used to do a paperound for him. Also Gurney's bakery in Scotgate, he was my uncle too. Thats when all that was sold on 'Good friday' in his shop were hot cross buns. I worked there for a while too. Then went for a drink in the White Swan..............
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| Roger |
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Yes remember Tylers, Dickinsons, Holmes, Gurneys (formerly Harveys who also had the shop corner of Scotgate/All Saints St.) Now all these were in Scotgate-: Dexters- petrol and cycles, Newton and Gentle - radio, Cycle Repair Service (Charlie Simpson - sadly killed in road accident in 1970s), Bill Garratt - barber and directly opposite Felix Vines - also barber.
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| Beverley Mitchell |
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My first job aged 14 in 1972 was at Chantrells.I used to put the icing on the iced buns,help with cream cakes and serve in the shop on a saturday.At the end of the day we could take home stuff that was left.
Hi Beverley - thanks for that memory. and also thanks for the iced buns! Anyone else out there who sampled those ice-buns, and cream cakes? Bet there are loads of people as the shop was always full of people looking keen to buy the last few cakes. Kate
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| David Farman |
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I remember the grocery shop that you are talking about because my mother used to get her groceries delivered, I think his name was Mr Smith an his wife worked with him. He was a tall man with glasses, such a lovely person .
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| Paul Rose |
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I also worked there after school doing the identical job as others have described earlier I also delivered large quantities of bread to the Stamford boys school and also wholemeal Alison loaves to the health food store which was in Sheepmarket which is now Richardson the estate agents, I also remember Fred who was a baker there and Wilf and Paul Chantrell those were the days.
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