A little bit of Turog in Irlam ....... gone but not forgotten

 Now if you are of a certain age and come from the North, the name Turog will instantly conjure up loaves of brown bread.

The flour for the bread was made by Spillers who then sold it on  to bakers who were licensed to make Turog bread, which Spillers promoted by advertising.

And plenty of those adverts still abound across the Greater Manchester and Yorkshire.

So, it isn’t too surprising that Andy came across his ghost sign for the bread.

I say ghost sign because production seems to have ceased a long time ago, although just when I have yet to find out.

Some sources vaguely refer to the 1960s, but it could be later, and might have coincided with a take over of Spillers by Dalgety plc in 1979 who sold the bakery side of the business to Allied Bakery.

But like all these things I am confident someone will tell me.

All of which left its rival Hovis to carry on offering up a type of brown bread made in the same way as Turog.

Location; Irlam

Picture; Turog ghost sign, Irlam, 2022, from the collection of Andy Robertson