Do Fletchers still make bread ?

[Mr Pops]

If so who for??????

[Bayern Blade]

It's no longer owned by Fletcher's,though they still make bread and still use the name.

Northern Foods owns it I think.

 

According to my dad,(who for years ran a family bakery business with my uncle and therefore is still quite knowledgable on the subject of bakeries), they supply all the army bases etc and at one point they exported to Spain,probably still do.

He tells me that you can no longer buy Fletcher's bread locally though as far as he knows.

[*Wallace*]

Gromit uses a Fletchers tea towel when she does the ironing.When we were kids we used to sing Fletchers bread tastes like lead when you eat it you drop dead at the Fletchers van that came round.

[soft ayperth]

Back in the mid 60s, when I was a student, I worked at Fletcher's bakery for a short while during one of the term breaks. Don't recall where it was located as my knowledge of Sheffield geography is rusty.

[Bayern Blade]

It's just up the road from Wednesday's ground in the direction of Wadsley Bridge.

[CarolW]

Do they still make that gorgeous fruitcake????

 

That was our Saturday afternoon treat!!!!! :hihi:

[soft ayperth]

It's just up the road from Wednesday's ground in the direction of Wadsley Bridge.

 

Would that have been the location in the '60s?

 

Also, and this one is difficult to get one's head around, when I was growing up my mother refused to buy Fletcher's bread. She used to tell us that it was owned by "a communist." My mother had her idiosyncracies, let's put it that way. Forgetting about the fact that politics and buying bread have nothing much in common, can anyone shed any light on how she might have got that idea in her head? Who was Mr Fletcher and who ran the place? Maybe there was a militant union leader employed there. I just found it odd at the time and I'm none the wiser now.

[OLD No.12]

they did a roaring trade on toasted teacakes and toasted bread

[me-and-pippo]

Not to mention the smoke damaged Doughnuts and Sally Lunns

[Bayern Blade]

Would that have been the location in the '60s?

 

Also, and this one is difficult to get one's head around, when I was growing up my mother refused to buy Fletcher's bread. She used to tell us that it was owned by "a communist." My mother had her idiosyncracies, let's put it that way. Forgetting about the fact that politics and buying bread have nothing much in common, can anyone shed any light on how she might have got that idea in her head? Who was Mr Fletcher and who ran the place? Maybe there was a militant union leader employed there. I just found it odd at the time and I'm none the wiser now.

 

I'll have to ask my old man but I assume the location is the same,he certainly knew the owners so I'll ask him about the communist rumour too!