Abbey's Bakery Summer Lane and Sutton Street
Abbey's bakery on the corner of Ormond Street and later Sutton Street a lifetime
of baking in Aston. With customers far and wide buying home made bread and
cakes, who also had a reputation for kindness to the poor and the needy,
especially Christmas time allowing the use of the baking ovens to cook the
family roast for Christmas dinner. And she did this service till the shop was
demolished the regeneration of Sutton Street.
My own mother used to have her Christmas chicken cooked there on several
occasions, one year my mother was late in getting her chicken from old man
Proctor in Newtown row. Unable to have it cooked at Abbey's she resorted to
cooking it in a galvanised bucket, this was the only way of getting it in our
small gas oven by standing the chicken on it's parsons nose. It still tasted
gorgeous and that Christmas dinner would always be remembered with the memory of
that particular feast.
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