In London, some of Cakebread Robey & Co's best glass can still be admired at The Queens, 26 Tottenham Lane, and The Salisbury on Green Lanes at the junction with St Ann's Road. As for their stained glass windows, the largest concentrations can be seen at St. Andrew's, Whitehall Park, in Holloway, or at St. Andrew's, Chase Side, in Southgate.
A look at the index pages of the Building of England series by Nikolaus Pevsner and online reveals Cakebread Robey & Co glass and windows can also be found in other counties, including Buckinghamshire, Dorset, Gloucestershire, Greater Manchester, and Suffolk.
The company had this wall painted twice. The range of products changed slightly in the process. The most recent layer reads:
Cakebread Robey & Co. Ltd. Builders Merchants & Ironmongers |
Stained Glass Windows, Leaded Lights, Glass, Lead, Oils, Colours, Varnishes. | Stoves, Baths, Lavatories, Saintary Fittings, Locks & Fastenings |
Also at Wood Green, Ilford, Tottenham, Harrow & Dalston |
The products previously avertised, on the same part of the wall as above, were:
Lead Glass, Oil Colours & Varnishes | Stove Ranges, Baths, Closets & Lavatories |
Location: Tyssen Road / Picture taken on: 01/04/2008
7 comments:
Close to my birthplace, and relations worked for them up to the 1960s.
Now close to me in Groombridge, near Tunbridge Wells, by the railway station is a newly restored wall advert for a bakers
Proud of my great granddad George Henry Cakebread who started the business.
Proud of my great granddad George Henry Cakebread who started the business.
My dad, Aaron Alexander worked at Cakebread & Robey from around 1945 until 1952 when 60 lbs of glass shattered on his left arm (no gauntlets were used then). He helped design beautiful stained glass for the churches.
My uncle Edward Spall spent the whole of his working life with the company working on stained glass windows.
Hello Terry can you tell me when you uncle Edward worked for cakebread,robey and wear David Pinches
Hello Terry can you tell me when your uncle Edward worked for cakebread robey.and were here worked thanks
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