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Kingsbridge included Stears Café and bakery, Upper Crust, Butterworths Bakery and Three Cooks.
No 31A Fore Street, Kingsbridge.June 1992. Lloyd Maunder butchers.
included, Langworthy Butchers, Eastmans Butchers and a Lloyd Maunder who still have a shop in Fore Street today.
THE BAKER The flour needed for a bakery would have been ground in Kingsbridge. There was a mill in Mill Street Kingsbridge from about 1330. It was established by the Abbots of Buckfast, and bar a short period when it helped to produce woollen cloth, it primarily ground corn and wheat. The mill was water powered from the leats that run down the back of Fore Street. These water channels can be still seen on western backway today, unlike the mill, which was demolished in 1984. Kingsbridge has always had a fair few
bakers. In the 1830 trade directory there were also 4 bakers; Robert Blamy, William Easterbrook, John Osborn and Eli Sinkins. For example 90 Fore Street, from the 1860’s to 1900, was not only a Bakers shop, but a confectioners shop too. Other bakeries in
THE CANDLESTICK MAKER Not a candlestick maker as such, but there were many ironmongers and similar trades in Kingsbridge over the years. There was also a foundry in Kingsbridge at the end of Duke street. Lidstones ran the foundry and made a wide collection of items, from cooking ranges, to gates and fences and more besides. Kingsbridge really was a town where you could get everything you needed and, although the foundry has gone, there is still a wonderful range of shops and businesses in the town.
For more information about the history of these shops and businesses visit the museum’s Local Heritage Resource Centre, open Monday-Thursday 10am- 12 noon with extended hours from 10am-3pm on a Wednesday. The room is open all year, and appointments can be arranged outside these times.
BELOW: Group of workers in Lidstones foundry, Kingsbridge, surrounded by equipment.
Front of Upper Crust, Baker’s shop next to Oxfam Fore Street, Kingsbridge.
TIME FOR A PASTY If all this talk of food and drink has made you peckish, why not consider taking part in the museum’s annual Treasure Hunt and Pasty Supper on Saturday 2nd November from 7pm. Entry is £10 a person for teams up to 6. This includes a classic Devon pasty, your first drink and cake and tea/coffee. A vegetarian option will be available. There will also be a bar and prizes for the winning team. Tickets must be purchased in advance at the museum or through our website/online shop. For more details and to book your tickets visit
www.kingsbridgemuseum.org.uk or call 01548 853235
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