Family Connections

Daisy Hooper was the widow of Harry Hooper, who was a baker in Butleigh, a village near Glastonbury, c.1912-1950s. He started working at the bakery before the First World War, and continued there after serving with the army in France, where he was wounded. Her husband baked bread every day except Christmas Day and the couple rarely had a holiday or day off.

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