This bakery, in a Cowley back street has been run by Roy Gibbons's family for at least four generations.
I liked the "Mobile Free Zone" sign on the shop wall! Sadly stocks were low when I got there on a Saturday lunchtime (it's a long way from Nantwich). However I wasn't too late to buy what Derek Cooper, (the former presenter of Radio 4's Food Programme), described as some of the best bread he had ever tasted:
The bakery nearly closed down, when they had a problem with a boiler, but locals were so upset they formed the
Friends of Gibbons Bakery to save this much loved Oxford bakery.
Gibbons Bakery
16 Hertford Street
Cowley
Oxford
OX4 3AJ
Tel: 01865 241136
Web:
www.cinox.demon.co.uk/Gibbons
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