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Trade
Directories first show the name Arnold in Whittington in 1860; Abraham
Arnold, a blacksmith. His son, also Abraham, was born in Whittington
in 1854. This younger Abraham appears in the 1881 census, in
Whittington, a lodger with John Bridgen's family in Arnold's Yard and an
unemployed baker. The 1891 census finds him married in his own home -
still in Arnolds Yard - and now working as a baker. Abraham died in
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By 1912
Frederick Aston had taken over Abraham Arnold's bakery business and
continued to bake Whittington's bread until the 1940s. The
bakehouse was behind their shop, which is now the
Co-op. By the 1930s it had a flash oven burning
coal, turning out a real crusty loaf, also buns, scones and cakes.
Whittington people could
take their Christmas turkey to cook in the bakery ovens, if it was too big
to cook at home.
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