Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Wonderloaf bakery and Jubly factory, White Hart Lane.
Does anyone have any memories or photographs of the above? The Wonderloaf bakery was a huge white building situated opposite the 'T' junction with Perth Rd in the 60s and 70s. The Jubly factory which made the triangular iced lolly things, was on the opposite side, and just along from the Haringey FC ground. It was set slightly back from the road, and their delivery trucks parked in front of the building. It was adjacent to a footpath which led up to Devonshire Hill Lane. From my memory, which could be wrong, the building was red brick and their trucks green with an orange logo.
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Permalink Reply by Bob Ruggles on
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Do remember it and the smell of Fresh Bread
A Junction well worth avoiding at school times
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Permalink Reply by Hugh on
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Here are a couple of photos od the Wonder Bakery. My filename for the aerial view suggests that I wasn't 100% sure the subject. Perhaps you could confirm.
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Permalink Reply by Tim Fennell on
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Yes Hugh, that's it, thank you! The area to the top of the picture where the New River Sports centre is now, was for years a wild overgrown wilderness, which extended up to Wolves Lane. It was a scary place to go when I was a kid, but still went there. The garage opposite the triangular green was still there in the early 80s... Does anyone recognise the make of trucks?
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Yes, that looks like them, thank you Gordon.
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I remember the Wonderloaf Bakery. The rich aroma of baking bread permeated the entire area. At night Wonderloaf delivery vans were visible through a high wire fence, parked outside the building on White Hart Lane, waiting to be loaded up for early morning bread deliveries. I didn’t ever view the early mornings but it would have been a hive of activity and I know the vans went out at an incredibly early hour.
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The 'Jubly factory was on the same side as the Wonderloaf factory about 500 yards towards Tottenham, It was set back from the road on the rising ground of Devonshire Hill and opposite the football ground, Selco now occupy the site.
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Fabulous photo!
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Permalink Reply by Colin Marr on
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I can confirm that photo shows the Wonderloaf bakery with its characteristic vans as it was in the late 1950s when I knew it. I was in my late teens then and I remember hearing about colleagues doing casual labour night-work loading the vans. It was said to be well paid, but hard work. A story that amused me (possibly apocryphal) is that loaves, after slicing but before wrapping, could be lifted off the conveyor belt, turned round and put through again before neatly being wrapped and moved along with all the other loaves. The term ‘wonder-loaf’ possibly extended to the surprise of the unsuspecting buyer who unwrapped such a loaf to find only thin strips of white bread.
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The casual labour was entirely unofficial by private arrangements with the drivers. Several of my school friends did the early morning loading during the week and on a Saturday worked the whole day working with the driver. This helped him finish his round earlier, Once finished he could go home.
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