Hales Home Bakeries
of Clevedon
c.1927 '... master baker’s wife Daisy Hale created the Granny Cake, a tasty fruit cake the dawn of a thriving cake industry in Clevedon. Mrs Hale’s husband Frank delivered the cakes alongside his bread and buns and soon business was booming for Hales Home Bakery in Old Street. The tiny shop and bakery expanded rapidly over the 15 years from 1926 .... '[1]
1935 Hales Home Bakeries (Clevedon Ltd).[2]
1941 Fitch and Son acquired Hales Home Bakeries from its owner Frank Hale.
1962 Hales Trent Cakes was formed by the merger of the Far Famed Cake Co and John Trent. Owned by Fitch Lovell.[3]