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Caroline’s Glen, Childrens Playground, Bristol
In the 1950s Caroline’s Cake Shops owned The Glen, a large play area for the kids, as well as refreshments and teas.
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This thriving Bristol business rose from a tiny single-fronted shop in Clifton thirty years ago, built on a legacy of £100 and a small bank balance by Joyce Ley, to the present three modem bakeries and eight retail shops supplying Bristolians with many thousands of cakes every week of the year.
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Joyce had originally gone to London to study singing but as her finances dwindled she began to despair of ever earning a living doing just that.
And at the museum restaurant, she was not very hopeful of getting a job either.
But as chance would have it, the assistant cake-maker had just walked out and Joyce was invited to make some cakes for afternoon tea.
After a few months in London, Joyce applied for a residential job in the seaside town of Sidmouth, in East Devon.
It was from there that she joined Carwardines, the Bristol coffee shop people who had just opened a new bakery in Baldwin Street, as head cake maker.
During the summer of 1931, Joyce inherited £100 which (together with savings of £40) seemed enough for her to branch out on her own.
Looking around for a small shop at a low rent she eventually found one in Clifton’s Princess Victoria Street – a single-fronted shop with a kitchen at the rear.
But by the time Joyce had bought all the ingredients she needed, plus boxes and bags, she had only a few pounds left.
It was Joyce’s mother who came up with the name Caroline’s Cake Shop because, she said, every other cake shop seemed to be called Ann’s Pantry, and she wanted something a little different.
When the shop opened for business in the summer of1931, Clifton ladies were invited to try, "Best quality butter and shell egg cakes at moderate prices".
Arriving on her bike at 5am on the opening day, a determined Joyce started baking scones, queen cakes, rock cakes and buns.
It was a great success – by noon the shelves were empty and the till full of money.
As the business grew so Joyce bought a motorcycle and delivered cakes in her lunchhour.
Although she worked from 5am until 7pm – and on Fridays until midnight – there never seemed quite enough cakes to sell.
On Saturdays the little shop was always packed.
With help from both her parents and her brothers, Geoffrey and John, Joyce was soon in a position to take on paid staff.
When a new row of shops was built in Henleaze, Joyce decided to open a second cake shop plus a cafe.
Meanwhile the Clifton shop, now on a new site, continued to flourish under a manageress.
In 1934, Joyce opened a third shop – her biggest, most risky venture yet – in Whiteladies Road.
This business flourished for 26 years before moving to a new site across the road.
Joyce eventually persuaded her younger brother, John, then just 22, to leave his job at Robinson’s packaging and join her as a partner.
This was the beginning of a long and happy partnership which lasted until 1947 when Joyce became chairman and John managing director.
Throwing himself into the business, John decided to start a country cake service with three vans and three young saleswomen
"Caroline’s" also took on its first male baker.
He was paid £2 a week.
In 1937, they opened another shop in Stoke Lane, Westbury-on-Trym and the flat over it became home to John Ley and his bride, manageress Joyce Lowe.
Their daughters would go on to join the family business.
In 1939, just before the outbreak of war, a fifth shop and cafe was opened on the Gloucester Road.
In 1945, Jolly’s bought the Whiteladies Road shop for future extension and although the lease had several years to run, it seemed a good idea to acquire a corner house opposite.
In 1960, the business crossed over the road to a new shop, bakery and office block. A new shop and bakery was also opened on Clifton’s Triangle. Two more shops were later acquired on Queens Road and in Baldwin Street.
By 1961, there were cake shops in East Street, Bedminster and on the Fishponds Road.
In 30 years the little shop founded in 1931 with a capital of £140 had grown into a large and successful business employing 150 workers in three modern bakeries.
By the 1960s, Caroline’s was supplying eight retail shops with thousands of cakes, pastries and savouries, as well as 20,000 steak and kidney pies every week.
In 1945, the Ley family had bought The Glen, an old, abandoned quarry on the Downs.
Without a licence to sell food the public were invited to bring their own and "picnic at The Glen".
As well as chairs and tables there were swings, slides, a roundabout and a paddling pool for children.
Entertainment included band concerts, dancing displays, fashion parades and roller skating.
The dances held there were so successful that in 1954 Mecca made an offer for the business.
In 1949, John Ley bought the former Ashton Court Lodge on Beggar Bush Lane and converted it into an out of town club
This opened in 1950 as the Ashton Court Country Club.
Caroline’s, of course, supplied the cakes for wedding receptions held there.
By brizzle born and bred on 2014-03-11 14:50:04