Can anyone tell me if Gregory's Cake Shop still exists. It was the one thing I forgot to check out on my first trip back to Sheffield in 24 years (last year). The BEST ice tarts (like a cherry bakewell) and even better vanilla slices.. yum!

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Can anyone tell me if Gregory's Cake Shop still exists. It was the one thing I forgot to check out on my first trip back to Sheffield in 24 years (last year). The BEST ice tarts (like a cherry bakewell) and even better vanilla slices.. yum!

I don't know whether it was the same Gregorys you knew (depends how long it had been there for) but there is one listed in the 1959 Kelly's Directory as E. & H. Gregory bakers & confctnrs. at 224 Abbeydale Road. There is is now an Italian Delicatessen at 224-226 Abbeydale Road. So this maybe answers your question. :sad: (don't quote me on that though)
Deebles
Unless anyone knows if they moved elsewhere but can't see them listed in the Yellow Pages.

thanks Deebles - like I said in my original post I didn't have chance to check it out - will do so next trip.

Hiya Helbco,

Gregory's had a bakery and shop in Chesterfield Road as well as the shop in Abbeydale Rd.
My mother worked for Mr & Mrs Gregory, and my sister and her husband lived above the Abbeydale Rd shop for some years. I can also remember my Mother, my Brother Terry and me staying in the Gregory's caravan for a week at Flambrough in the late 40's/early 50's.
Gregory's fruit pies were brilliant as well as the other stuff the made.

regards

neil memmott

oh well - sounds like we might now have the italian version of ice tarts and vanilla slices!!

On my visit back in 1982 my Aunt bought me a tray of 6 iced (Bakewell) tarts - I ate them all in one sitting !

I occasionally buy packets of Mr Kiplings but its just not the same!

Hi again Helbco,

Yes the iced bakewells were my father's favourite too, who is Mr Kipling?:-)

regards

Hi again Helbco,

Yes the iced bakewells were my father's favourite too, who is Mr Kipling?:-)

regards

Mr Kipling? R U Kidding?
Have you never heard the saying 'Mr Kipling makes exceedingly good cakes!' or should that be 'small cakes!'.:hihi:

exceedingly good "taste" - but always worry about the other ingredients that give them a shelf-life of 12 +!!

And yes- they ARE small - about half the size of a Gregorys!

Good point Helbco, old man Gregory's iced Bakewells were'nt on the shelf long enough to go awf!!!!!

The original Bakewell pudding shop in Bakewell isn't nearly as good as what the later versions became, tarts. The custards were my favourites and of course Sheffield is, among other things famous for them.

Floridablade, that's another thing Gregory's were marvelled for, their custards were out of this world, what was the brown stuff on top of the custard, nutmeg or something, anyway, they didn't last long once you sunk your teeth into them.

regards
neil memmott

Hi again Helbco,

Yes the iced bakewells were my father's favourite too, who is Mr Kipling?:-)

regards

Introducing 'Mr Kipling'! :partyhat:

http://www.mrkipling.co.uk/

Nice one Deebles

don't forget the vanilla slices - have yet to find one as good!

Together with the ice tarts and the custard tarts - that's all my Grandma and Auntie ever bought, so don't even know what else they sold.

Does the new Italian shop still sell the ice tarts?

Hi

I worked at Gregory's on Chesterfield Road for a short time when the kids were young until we moved away from Thirlwell Road in the mid 70's. Someone called Anne was in charge - although there had been another older lady there when I first went to the shop (having a senior moment and can't recall names very well :hihi:).

Living just round the corner from the bakery was wonderful, we got all the fabulous bakery smells every day.

I've still never found any other bakery make stuff like they did ALL their cakes were fantastic - I'd hate to have to choose between them!!

Aaah such memories of wonderful food :)

Stenner

Hi Stenner,
Ann at Greg's as we used to call it was a very nice person, wore rimless specks if I recall rightly. The older lady was Miss Lidster, she'd been there for years, she lived up Petre Street somewhere, I can remember Mom, brother Derek and me going up there when we were very young, I cannot remember why, it was a long time ago.
There's nothing like the smell of 1) Fish & Chips, 2) Bacon frying and above all 3) Fresh bread beeing baked, especially Gregs.

did Gregory's bake bread as well?- wasn't aware of that!

So did the recipes go with the sale of the business - ie do the Italians still sell the same products? If not, then someone in the Gregory family is sitting on a goldmine!

They certainly did bake bread and it was as good as you'd expect.

As for the Italians they are newcomers. Gregorys as well as I remember retired and sold the business to a family called Barkers who owned it for a number of years. I'm not sure that the Gregories had any family, I don't remember anyone so I assume (rightly or wrongly) that the Barkers had the benefit of the recipes and then, perhaps if the Barkers were already established bakers they could well have had their own idea of how to bake. We may never know but I can see where you're coming from.

regards

Helbco, here's one for you.

Gregory's bake house was in London Road behind their main shop. Not only did they make fine bread but also breadcakes that were so out of this world I'm drooling as I type. Now then next door to Gregs was the finest pork butcher ever to grace Heeley, Mr Philips. Get some of Philips roast pork on a Gregorys breadcake and you were in heaven. Another thing about old man Philips, when you walked out of his shop, you felt as though you'd been served properly, his missus was the same and so was his son Walter.
He always used to say he was a copper or two more expensive than the rest but you got the best. Testomony to that was the queue up towards the Red Lion on a Saturday morning.

thanks Neil - I'll have to ask my Mum about that as she lived off Abbeydale for a long time whereas I was only born and lived there from '54 - '56 and visited regularly until '66.

It sounds as though Sheffield lost an icon!