This is the remarkable and unlikely story of how a bakery came to
be built in a small Derbyshire village. Of the two orphaned
traumatized children living in no more that an improvised wind
brake (a cott.) on the edge of the great forest of Sherwood, and
the common lands that stretched for miles to the north and east,
who schemed, firstly just to provide enough food to survive. Many
didn't in the harsh economic climate, of the cruel, pre-Victorian
times in which they lived. Of childbirth, that could be a death
sentence, and medical advancement's that came gradually, and
through unlikely ways. It is the story of trickery and
superstition, bordering on witchcraft, and the remarkable
advancement through the industrial age. Of how illness, or injury,
blighted the lives of all, and success could be no more than the
ability to stay alive and healthy. Through it all, runs the theme
of the bakery, based on the people who lived, worked and died
there. It is also a history of the area and the age through which
they lived, from the days of the highwaymen, the coming of the
roads, canals, and railways, of the expansion of the church, and
it's often eccentric priests. And of how disease was largely
conquered by the event of clean water. And a population that was
dragged kicking and screaming into the modern age.
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