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I was just thinking back to when I first moved to Nottingham and people would come into the shop and buy potted beef cobs, freshly made there and then.I thought cob was a rather strange name for a bread roll at the time. The shop was also a grocers and you could buy single cigarettes for about three pence, I think, or maybe it was cheaper! I remember looking across the road to the Sherbrooke pub when it was still going - it was busier on a Saturday, but I don't remember it having that many customers. The Meadows itself had real character then - before all the terraced houses were demolished.

Timpsons bakery was renamed Beauvale Bakery. My father Lucian Czapiewski bought it with a partner in the late 1950s/early 1960s. I can't remember exactly when. It became a continental bakery and he supplied shops in the east and West Midlands. The building was in a bit of a time warp for years and I used to feel as if I had been transported back to Victorian times when I was there. Also the attic was left untouched for years and like an Aladdin's cave full of old 78 records and players, gas masks, flags, an old baker's cart, loads of things - great fun. I remember sitting and watching my Dad