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Whitfield family bakery, of Idle, near Bradford, notebooks and related material

Archive Collection: MS 1651

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Type of record: Archive

Title: Whitfield family bakery, of Idle, near Bradford, notebooks and related material

Level: Collection

Classmark: MS 1651

Creator(s): Whitfield, Martha Ann (1865-1924)()

Date(s): c.1883-2000

Language: English

Size and medium: 7 items (photographs, typescript, manuscript, printed)

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/7442

Collection group(s): Cookery Collection

Description

Includes 1 sheet of photographs; 1 sheet of typscript notes; 1 notebook belonging to Martha Ann Whitfield, containing recipes used in the bakery; 2 notebooks belonging to Harriet Heggs (née Barker); and 2 printed items.


The material was donated to the Library by Dr. Eileen White, on behalf of the family of Mary Heggs September 2001.

Biography or history

Martha Ann Whitfield (1865-1924), known as Marthann, and Anne Whitfield, afterwards Hook (1886-1981), were the daughters of Emma and Joseph Bateson Whitfield of Brackendale, Thackley. There were two brothers, Alfred and Joshua, and another sister, Ada, who married Fred Barker. Marthann and Annie bought the bakery in Town Lane in about 1920 and eventually sold the business to their nephew, Frank Whitfield, son of Joshua. Marthann died of influenza in 1924, while Annie, who in 1928, at the age of 42, had married William Hardaker Hook, remained in Idle until her death in 1981, aged 95.

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