{"id":27803,"date":"2013-08-29T20:21:38","date_gmt":"2013-08-29T19:21:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/?p=27803"},"modified":"2013-11-18T17:59:59","modified_gmt":"2013-11-18T17:59:59","slug":"ron-veness-bakers-and-bakeries-in-hastings-old-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/?p=27803","title":{"rendered":"Ron Veness – Bakers and Bakeries in Hastings Old Town"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ron Veness Bakers & Bakeries<\/p><\/div>\n

Ron Veness popped into the office of the Bohemia Village Voice<\/em> today with a copy of his new book\u00a0Bakers and Bakeries in the Old Town of Hastings.\u00a0<\/em>It’s a self-published A5-size book of some 36 pages, lavishly illustrated in colour and black and white [see example below] on sale at the History Centre in Hastings Old Town; it’s also available from Ron direct.<\/p>\n

The following is an extract from the preamble:<\/p>\n

Pat-a-cake, pat-a-cake, baker’s man,\u00a0<\/em>bake me a cake as quick as you can.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

By 1940, there were two bakeries in All Saints Street: White’s and Blackman’s. A hundred years earlier there were seven. By 1950 there were none.\u00a0<\/span>I remember the dark winter mornings during the dark days of World War Two while I was growing up in All Saints Street, my mother would sometimes send me down the street to Thomas White’s bakery for fresh, hot, crispy rolls for breakfast (the ‘double summertime’ of those wartime years made the winter mornings doubly dark). We never bought bread from Blackman’s across the street, but perhaps he had already retired from baking.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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All Saints Street – Leslie Badham 1925<\/p><\/div>\n

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CONTACT<\/strong> <\/span><\/p>\n

Ron Veness,
\n17, Dudley Road,
\nHastings, Sussex, TN35 5JP,
\nTel: 01424 713 318.
\nronveness@hotmail.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n

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