Words: Mark Stevenson
Photos: Mark Stevenson and Roger Templeman
In 1911 a John Waite lived with his family at 25 Lowtown, Pudsey. John’s occupation was that of a baker.
There is a building on Mount Pleasant Road in Pudsey that has a ‘ghost sign’ that looks to say ‘Waite Bakery’.
The building is marked on the maps as a bakery from the 1950’s to the 1970’s. These dates just tell you when it was a bakery, not when it started and stopped trading as a bakery.
It looks like there has been a building on the site with the same footprint as the present one since around 1908.
Before that, there was a wall along Mount Pleasant Road with a benchmark cut into it. The benchmark was kept and worked into the building and can still be seen today.
Hello, I may be interested in buying the old bakers shop on Mount Pleasant Road. Would the owner be interested in selling as it’s a waste of what could be my dream shop?