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Loaf & Co · Sowerby Bridge

Three generations. One sourdough starter.

The same street, the same family and, since 1985, the same jar of starter. Scroll through four decades of early mornings.

BAKING SINCE1962

62years on Wharf Street

3generations at the oven

1,400loaves a day, by hand

A risograph print of a 1960s bakery delivery van parked outside a red-brick row house, its back doors open on trays of loaves

1962

Ted's green van

Ted bakes 200 loaves a night in the back of a rented shop and drives them round the terraces before the mill shift starts.

Ted, founder

A risograph print of a floured sourdough loaf on a board beside a proving basket

1985

The starter

Ted's daughter Jean takes over and begins the sourdough we still bake today. Over Christmas the starter lives in her fridge at home.

Jean, second generation

A risograph print of a tray of golden croissants

2004

Butter and Sundays

Jean's son Dev comes home from a year in Lyon with a croissant habit. The Sunday line starts reaching the corner.

Dev, third generation

A risograph print of a busy corner bakery today: a window full of loaves under a striped awning, a bike outside and people passing

Today

The corner store

Dev and Priya run the shop and a bread school upstairs. Same street, same starter, and the ovens on at four every morning.

Dev and Priya, with a team of eleven

Come to a bread class

or order loaves for Saturday

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