Watson's Bakehouse

Photograph of bakers working at Watson's
By Laura Matthews

Morris Jackman donated a copy of this photograph, which shows his father Ernie Jackman working as a baker at Watson's Bakehouse on Howard Street, Great Yarmouth in 1953. The photograph shows the following people from left to right: Bert Watson (the owner of the bakery), Ernie Jackman (baker) and Edward Vincent other wise known as 'Lollie' (baker).

Did you work at Watson's? What was it like?

Photo:Bakers at work at Watsons Bakery, c. 1953

Bakers at work at Watsons Bakery, c. 1953

Courtesy of Eastern Daily Press

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This page was added by Laura Matthews on 14/12/2007.

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I am currently researching my English ancestors and was so pleased to see this photograph. "Lollie" was my uncle, Edward Reginald Vincent, the brother of my mother, Selina Annie Mancini (formerly Vincent). Lollie was born in 1906 and I last saw him in the late 1940s when I was a young child and he was then living at 1 Walpole Road with my grandparents, William and Elsie Vincent. My uncle, Hubert Hastings, who married Lollie's and my mother's sister and my aunt, Alice Maud Vincent, also worked at Watson's.

By Peter Mancini
On 14/01/2008

I remember there was a bakery called Matties somewhere in Great Yarmouth in the the 70s. They had shops called Matties also I think there was a resturant where people had functions one of the shops was at the top of Gorleston High Street

By kathleen kennedy
On 07/11/2008

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