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REAL & HOLTON
of
CASTLE CARY
SOMERSET

Est 1936 - 1949

Real and Holton continued to trade into the 1950s under the name Sparkes of Cary. This business was the first to use the Roundhouse as a trade mark in Castle Cary. The Roundhouse was used as the local Lock-Up to secure disorderly prisoners.

Arthur Real
1886 - 1970

Businessman

Walter Holton
1873 - 1943

Master Baker and Confectioner

Left side of picture: Kay Sparkes standing in front of the former Bakehouse door, Castle Cary, Somerset, in 1997.

Right side of picture: The Real and Holton bakehouse staff in the early days before the 1947 Royal Wedding.

Kay Sparkes beside a poster advertising the exhibition for the Queen and Duke's Diamond Wedding Anniversary. When Kay attended Buckingham Palace she was able to see a clip of film of the line up of the Wedding Cakes and spotted the Cake her father had made by Frank Spencer, one of his bakers, for the Princess.

Mr W T Sparkes	Mr Frank Spencer

Kay Sparkes with a poster advertising the exhibition for the

Diamond Wedding Anniversary.


The Bakehouse window seen in the distance from the Cart Passage of Fore Street in 2007.		Mrs Frank Spencer (right) with her daughter taken on a staff outing to Weston-super-Mare, Somerset standing beside Mrs Sparkes.

Right: Entrance to Cart Passage can just be seen in the centre of this picture of Fore Street, Castle Cary, Somerset.

The Queen and Duke in their carriage after 60 years of love and marriage.
	Photo copyright © 2008 Leo Kennedy. Used by kind permission.

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