Robinsons is a family run bakery based in Failsworth, Manchester. Our bakery in Failsworth was opened 8th January 1954 (David's birthday!) after a move from Rochdale Road in Harpurhey due to compulsory purchase by the late Arthur Robinson and his wife Joyce.
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David Robinson is the big boss. Managing Director, baker, sales executive,delivery person, accountant etc! David was first put in the giant bread mixing bowl by his dad Arthur when he was 7 years old at the Rochdale Road bakery in thedays when the ovens were coke fired & Arthur had to light the fire every Sunday for the weeks baking. After leaving school in 1971 David studied at Hollings College, or the Toast Rack as it was known, being classically trained as a baker and confectioner. He also attended Salford College, getting a flavour of continental confectionery from Helmut Proff, a renowned bakery teacher. David worked for Spillers as a trainee manager and it was during this time he developed his dislike for factory production methods. So off he went to the Cheshire countryside to work at Chatwins in Nantwich, where some of the finest cakes in the country were made. Over the years David has toured Europe to enhance his confectionery skills, and is more passionate today than ever in preserving the traditional methods required to produce quality products.
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Sue Robinson is the Mummy of the bakery. As a director of the Robinsons, Sue is chief of the shop and knows most of our customers personally. We think our personal connection with our customers is one of the reasons they keep on coming back, as well as the quality and selection of our products! Sue's main area is buffets. She spends alot of time during the day freshly preparing buffets for a verity of customers. Sue even grows seasonal produce to use on our buffets such as tomatoes, basil, rocket and lettuce. Sue is everyone's mummy.
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Grace Robinson is chief baker. Grace makes all of the doughs from scratch every day and moulds them by hand into every loaf and muffin you see in our shop. All of our bread, pastry, and scones are made using traditional methods and secret Robinson recipes that have been passed down the six generations.
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Karen Shivas is our confectioner. Karen joined the Robinsons team before any of the girls were even born - way back in 1978 after she had finished training at Salford College. Karen makes all of our cakes from beginning to end, including our wonderful celebration cakes.
News
15/4/18
10/12/17
Back in 2011 we joined Piccadilly Street Food Market in Manchester and we have traded almost every single week since. For us it has been a great success and we've met a lot of fantastic people who we now see and serve every week. The amount of Manchester Cobs, Manchester Tarts and Pork Pies we have made and sold is amazing and we hope everyone was enjoyed.
Unfortunately, none of us are getting any younger and the time has come for us to make the decision to leave Piccadilly Market at the end of next week to allow my Dad David to start to retire.
We would like to take this opportunity to thank massively our dedicated team Emma, Melissa, Zak and Helena for working out in all weathers and every situation Piccadilly has thrown at us.
And a huge great big thank you to every single one of you guys who have visited us whether it be once or twice when passing or every day we have been there. Many of you we consider friends and love chatting with.
Moving forward you will be able to shop with us in Piccadilly ALL next week from Monday 11th to Saturday 16th, and we'll be at Ashton Farmers Market on Sunday 17th.
As always you can visit us at our bakery in Failsworth or our shop in New Moston. If you can't visit us out of the city you can grab a great selection of our bread from Ancoats General Store.
Hopefully we will be coming back for the occasional market in St Ann's Square other locations around the city.
But for now we have to say bye bye.
We hope our last week in Piccadilly will be special and many of you come and see us.
Much love
David, Sue and Grace