Delivering Our Daily Bread

A Memory of Runcorn.

The picture shown is of Russell Road which runs left to right centre of the picture. Every day except Sunday during the early 1960s I used to deliver bread all around Weston Point and remember well reversing my Co-op van up all the avenues off Russell Road. I may be wrong but the avenue in the lower right hand corner of the picture looks like Hazel Avenue. It was a job that I loved to do, getting up in the morning to go to the bakery in Mersey Road near the old Boathouse Inn. I think the bakery is a Kwik-Fit tyre depot nowadays. This brings back happy memories of those days when there were lots of bread vans from different companies doing the rounds such as 'Champion', 'Sunblest' etc, and our own which was 'Wheatsheaf'. Happy days!