17 lost photos show Liverpool Sayers workers through the decades
Unseen photos unearthed from our archives
If you grew up in Merseyside, you've most likely been to a local Sayers store
Over a century ago in 1912, Fred and Lylian Sayer started selling baked products from a basement kitchen on Prescot Road, Old Swan. From its humble beginnings in the city, today customers can enjoy everything from cakes, sandwiches, soups or other bakery products from Sayers.
Production later moved to County Road, Walton, in 1922 before increasing demand saw Sayers move to a larger bakery in Aintree Road, Bootle in 1925. By the early 1930s, another expansion saw Sayers moved to a purpose-built baker in Lorenzo Drive, Norris Green, which went into liquidation and closed in the 00s.
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Sayers remained a family run business until 1977 when it was sold to United Biscuits and later in 1990 was bought by Warburtons. Six years later, in 1996, Warburtons sold its bakers stores to Lyndale Foods and the following year the family was expanded further when the Annes Shops chain of shops were bought from Roberts Bakery in 1997.
For decades, many generations have worked at the now lost Lorenzo Drive site, as well as shops across Merseyside. And these photographs offer a glimpse into the past and those who have worked at Sayers.
Courtesy of our archives, Mirrorpix, as well as Liverpool ECHO photographers past and present - these photos will stir some memories. Many of them have been unseen for years and were only recently rediscovered by our archives team.
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A delivery van through the picket line outside Sayers. April 12, 1976
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Staff from the Sayers shop at Williamson Square, Liverpool. L-R Kathy Fleetwood, Julie Pennington, Deborah Turner. September 23, 1991
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A Japanese television company is looking for budding scouse songsters to star in a tourism film. Tokyo's channel 12 is coming to the city to test the vocal chords of Merseyside's at work. They are making a documentary about singing workers in England. Film makers had requested shots of bakers singing while they cooked so the Echo sent them to Sayers main bakery in Lorenzo Drive, Norris Green. There they met baker Dave Clayton who likes to entertain his fellow staff and backing group Mary Thorne, Pat Ledden, Carol Riley and Nora Morrey. October 23, 1995
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A Japanese television company is looking for budding scouse songsters to star in a tourism film. Tokyo's channel 12 is coming to the city to test the vocal chords of Merseyside's at work. They are making a documentary about singing workers in England. Film makers had requested shots of bakers singing while they cooked so the Echo sent them to Sayers main bakery in Lorenzo Drive, Norris Green. There they met baker Dave Clayton who likes to entertain his fellow staff and backing group Mary Thorne, Pat Ledden, Carol Riley and Nora Morrey. October 23, 1995
(Image: Colin Lane/Mirrorpix)4 of 17![Jackie Ormisher manager of Sayers in Williamson Square, Liverpool, with her hands full of mince pies, 1999]()
Jackie Ormisher manager of Sayers in Williamson Square, Liverpool, with her hands full of mince pies, 1999
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