At the age of 9, my sister married into the Herbert baking operation in Bristol, and I was fortunate enough to spend my school holidays helping out wherever I could. It was a combination of rising for work at 5am, cups of strong bakery tea and jamming 500 doughnuts a day that got this young boy hooked!

Leaving school at 16, I embarked on my baking journey working in bakeries in Oakham and then Melton Mowbray, before moving down to Chipping Sodbury in 1985 and running Hobbs House Bakery in its current guise.

Since those wild days in the mid 80s, when Live Aid, and Bruce Springsteen’s Born in the USA sell out tour where amongst the highlights, the original shop on the Chipping Sodbury High Street has developed into a 5 shop operation, along with a thriving wholesale department, a bistro and of course our fantastic online shop.

I have now been joined by my extended family, and with a really great team, and have become the retail director for Hobbs House Bakery, where our aim is to give our many customers a great service that matches the award winning products we have available 6 days a week.

Retail Director