Vegets Bread

[keith higson]

In the late forties my Mum used to buy "Vegets Bread" (I've spelt it as it sound to me), I don't know who baked it but do they still sell it. (Actually we had rather a crude song about it - well at the time it was crude - but I transgress).

[Margaret Pilkington]

No they don't....and I know the crude song you refer to...they sang the same song about Moseleys Bread too........and do you remember Turog...brown bread?

[cashman]

"Don't eat Veget Bread" Don't remember it.

[maxthecollie]

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

No they don't....and I know the crude song you refer to...they sang the same song about Moseleys Bread too........and do you remember Turog...brown bread?

Moseleys Bread I believe was taken over by Warburtons.

[susie123]

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

No they don't....and I know the crude song you refer to...they sang the same song about Moseleys Bread too........and do you remember Turog...brown bread?

I remember seeing adverts for Turog but not aware of ever having eaten it. Wonder where the name came from?

[susie123]

From

GANSG - Bread and cakes

Turog bread was introduced to the UK in 1903, as with Hovis the flour was sold to local bakeries who were then allowed to advertise. Turog supplied its shops with a 3-D sign made of bass relief lettering on a metal frame to mount on the outside wall, the same style of lettering was also used for painted signs on the walls of the bakers.

They had a factory in Cardiff and were a national brand by the 1950s.

And here's a lovely photo of an old sign:

Turog Bread Sign. Uppermill. | Flickr - Photo Sharing!

Sounds like a Welsh word to me - and the bakery at Cardiff's folk museum is called Turog

Turog Bakery - Cardiff - Bakeries

Can't say I've ever heard of the bread Keith mentions - or the crude song!

[davemac]

Never heard of vegets bread, but had forgotten about Turog bread, and the sign. But having seen the sign, it all comes back to me now, but not the song.

[susie123]

Originally Posted by davemac

Never heard of vegets bread, but had forgotten about Turog bread, and the sign. But having seen the sign, it all comes back to me now, but not the song.

The power of memory...

I'm reading a book about the Jewish community in Manchester at the moment. In it there is a photo of a fur shop about 100 years ago. When I saw the name it instantly took me back to the mid fifties when I was about ten. I used to spend a lot of time with my great aunt who was mad about furs and I remember going with her a few times to Manchester to a shop with the same name. I googled it and found several adverts from the fifties for the shop, by now in a very upmarket street in Manchester. That was something I had completely forgotten about till I saw that name in the book. But it brought it all back, sitting in the shop while she talked furs with the owner, seeing the furs at home etc.

[susie123]

Look at this thread - post 28...

http://www.accringtonweb.com/forum/f...e-28212-2.html

[davemac]

Originally Posted by susie123

Look at this thread - post 28...

http://www.accringtonweb.com/forum/f...e-28212-2.html

Your ability to source material is magic, but I dont remember the song, well I dont think I do.

[susie123]

Originally Posted by davemac

Your ability to source material is magic

Had to do it as part of my job for five years - it's second nature now...

[Lost in Cornwall]

If I remember rightly Veget's bakery was in Darwen. They disappeared sometime in the 60's. I've got a feeling they were taken over by Moore's who had a bakery in Manchester.

[cashman]

As i recall,the Off Licence on Burnley Rd,just below the Boars Head sold Veget bread, as did the Co-op on Moore St/Corner of Dowry St, Would assume that all the Co-ops sold it?

[Paul Savage]

Further to Lost In Cornwall's answer, I recall Veget's bakery was in Darwen - just off Blackburn Road at the 'Boundary' where the lights are now sited for the motorway. The M65 goes over the top of the old site now.

My brother did a holiday job there years ago and definitely brought home the Vegets and all its ill effects as detailed in the ditty!!!!! Memories are not brilliant, but I believe this is where it was made

[Bob Dobson]

Originally Posted by Lost in Cornwall

If I remember rightly Veget's bakery was in Darwen. They disappeared sometime in the 60's. I've got a feeling they were taken over by Moore's who had a bakery in Manchester.

Ben Worsley Ltd, North End Bakery, Blackburn Rd & Bog Height Rd, Darwen were "sole makers of Veget bread, the king of all breads"