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The Whitaker family business began as a Grocery and Drapery store in the small North Yorkshire village of Crosshills. Started by John Whitaker and his wife Rebecca, the earliest surviving ledger records transactions in 1889.

After leaving school, John was apprenticed to his brother in law who owned a Grocery and Drapery shop in Gargrave. After his apprenticeship, he moved to Crosshills where he opened his own shop in the main street. John and Rebecca’s daughter, Ida, trained as a Bakeress in Morecambe in her Auntie’s Bakery and, after her return to Crosshills, persuaded her father to change his Grocery and Drapery shop into a Bakers and Confectioners. Produce was made in a room behind the shop, sold in the front and the family lived above.

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