Baker
Wartime Wheat & Feeding the Nation
Before the start of the First World War, Britain relied heavily on imported grain from America for the production of bread.
With the availability of grain limited by unrestricted German submarine warfare from January 1917, combined with a poorer than expected harvest in 1916 and the continued depletion of manpower following conscription, resources were rallied to the important cause of providing the population with bread.
Many of our bakers sons served in the war, some never to return, resulting in change of ownership.
