This very large cake was the idea of the then general manager of the bakery Ted Morris. It was baked in honour of the first anniversary of the very large supermarket in West Bridgeford, Nottingham called Little Gem. The cake was made to be a replica of the actual building of the supermarket, hence the cars and car park. The cake of course was cut up and given to customers. I am not sure that Percy Lander would have approved ?? I think he might have though !!

I'm to young to remember the cake but GEM [Goverment Employees Mart] were an American company set up to assist the American goverment employees to purchase goods cheaper because they were not paid well at the time it spread to the UK and the West Bridgeford Branch became Asda sometime in the late 70"s

The person in the centre of the picture is Charles Strutt. He was the Bakery production manager. Very good manager whom I worked alongside in cases of emergences. The other person next to Charlie, (wearing a tie), was a management trainee. The other three persons were bakery operatives. The outside two people played cricket for the Landers Cricket Team.

The Little Gem Supermarket opened it's doors in West Bridgeford, Nottinghamshire, in 1964....It was taken over by Asda Supermarkets in 1966.

In the 1960s. Bread retail prices were controlled by the government, no one was allowed at that time to cut the price of bread...Any increase in the price of bread was national news, and was only increased by 1/2d at any one time. A.C.

The large cake that was produced at landers bakery is as A Curtis says. When the cake was due to be transported to West Bridgford, a wall had to have a hole made in it to extricate it with a special cradle made and then lifted out with a crane onto the veicle then transported to the supermarket. The cake weighed 1/4 ton.

I can remember that Steve....Best Wishes. Alan C.