Turog will pick you up!
Have you ever noticed the Turog signs in Uppermill and thought what’s that about?
I suppose it depends on your generation and whether you’re a born and bread Uppermillian or not. There’s a slight clue in that sentence!
There were at least 2 of the signs dotted around the village in the last 5 years, although last time I looked I could only find one. Perhaps you know where that remaining one is?
These signs would hang outside independent bakeries assigned with making the Turog loaves using Turog flour supplied by the company.
Turog Brown Flour Company was launched at the turn of the century & was one of the main competitors to Hovis for ‘healthy’ brown bread until the mid 20th century.
The Turog Brown Flour Company, was launched by Spillers at the turn of the Twentieth Century, a fore runner of all the healthy choices we have today. Turog flour was sold to local bakeries, who baked brown bread with it and then sold and advertised the Turog brand. Up until the 1960’s Turog competed with Hovis as the leading “Healthy Loaf”. The large wooden Turog sign would have hung outside a small local Bakery, around the 1940’s and 1950’s. This is a real slice of English history!
General Advertiser – Tuesday 14 November 1905
Wednesday 19 November 1913
Author: Jude Gidney - Editor
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I used to eat Turog in 1950-60s and quite liked its solidity.
I suppose people were seduced away to eat awful soft white bread to the detriment of their health.
I won first prize at Huddersfield tech in1969 for baking turog bread so it was still around in the 1970s. The flour was made by Spillers limited
My Grandparents used to own the bakery at 12 High Street, Uppermill. Mr and Mrs William Rainford. There was a Turog sign on the side of the house, it appears on Google Earth, but I don’t know when that was. I never knew of another sign in the village, and I grew up in Uppermill from 1958, till age 17 years.
My Grandparents, Mr and Mrs William Rainford ran the bakery at 12 High Street, which had the Turog sign on the side of the house. It is on Google Earth, but I’m not sure when the photos were taken by Google. I was born in Uppermill in 1958, and lived there until age 17, and the sign was still there then.
There is still a faded Turog painted sign on a side wall in Irlam at the junction with Boat Road. It is clearly visible on Google Earth.
I’ve just baked two loaves in old Turog tins and the name is raised pleasingly on the side of the loaves! I became curious and di a bit of googling, and now I have a recipe for Turog bread.
Do you have a photo Anne?
I do but I’ve deleted it from my Photos. however it’s on my family WhatsApp thread and I can forward it to you that way if you instruct me how to do it!
I may be baking again tomorrow using the Turog recipe I found online.
I would like to know how the name originated.
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