The Old Bakery / Park Lane Shop

The Old Bakery used to be behind No 5 Park Lane and the ovens remain in the garden to this day. One hundred years ago it was owned by the Heath Brothers. In the 1930s there were bread deliveries to each house every day, including Sunday, on an old black bicycle with a basket holder. The bakery business closed, but No 5 Park Lane opened as another village shop (White & Chalmers), closing in 1986. The bread ovens of the Old Bakery were still being used to cook turkeys for villagers as late as the 1960s.