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HAROLD PEELE UGLOW (1881-1959)

The Plymouth bakery of Messrs R C Uglow and Son was inherited by Mr Harold Peele Uglow when his father, Mr Richard Cory Uglow (1850-1913), died on Monday December 1st 1913.  Born in Plymouth on October 29th 1881, he was the eldest son of Mr Richard Cory Uglow and his wife, formerly Miss Laura Peele, whom he had married in the Wandsworth Registration District of London in 1873.  Mr Harold Peele Uglow had married Miss Maud Stanbury at the Anglican Church of All Saints, Plymouth,, on Tuesday August 9th 1910.

In the census taken on Sunday April 2nd 1911, he and Maud were living at number 50 Union Street, East Stonehouse, which had until 1897 been the bakery of Mr William Venn and his sister, Miss Mary E Venn.  However, a 1914 trade directory shows that they were then in business at numbers 63 and 64 Cambridge Street, where widow Mrs Laura Uglow was living; number 6 Market Avenue, Plymouth; and number 50 Union Street, East Stonehouse.  The bakery was at that time producing "Century Bread", a white loaf, and "U. B. Brown", both wrapped and sealed.  They were also running a cafe at number 18 Lockyer Street, where Mr Harold Peele Uglow and Maud lived, on the way up to Plymouth Hoe.

When the new company name of Messrs Uglow's Bakeries Limited was registered on September 22nd 1937 Mr and Mrs Uglow gave separate addresses: 18 Lockyer Street and 5 Devonshire Villas, Stuart Road, Devonport, respectively.  It is not known why.  The new Company, which had a capital of £3,000 in one pound shares, was to have at least two directors or a maximum of three.  The registered office was at numbers 63 and 64 Cambridge Street.  Mr Harold Peele Uglow was appointed chairman for life and his wife, who was stated to be the bakery manager, became the first managing director.  She was to succeed her husband as chairman upon his death.  The 1939 register shows them living together at the cafe in Lockyer Street but Harold Peele Uglow's date of birth is given as October 29th 1889 instead of 1881.  (For an unknown reason Mr Uglow was not baptized until March28th 1904, at the Anglican Church of All Saints, Plymouth.)

Mr Richard Cory Uglow's widow, Mrs Laura Uglow, died at 64 Cambridge Street, Plymouth, on Monday March 18th 1940 at the age of 91 years.  Mrs Maud Uglow passed away at "Crathorne", Whitchurch, near Tavistock, on February 12th 1942 so she never became chairman of the Company.

By 1951 the Company had added number 62 Cambridge Street as their office.  They also had three new branches at 7 Victopria Road, Saint Budeaux; 23 Edgcumbe Place, Devonport; and the Ridgeway at Plympton.  Their delivery vans, which were garaged in Newport Street, East Stonehouse, visited all parts of the local area including Callington, in Cornwall.  Some time between 1951 and 1953 the bakery and registered office were moved to Newport Street but they kept the double shop in Cambridge Street.

Mr Harold Peele Uglow died on Tuesday July 21st 1959 at Erin House, 8A Woodside, Plymouth.  He was 77 years of age.  The funeral service was held on Friday July 24th 1959 at the Ancient Parish Church of Saint Andrew the Apostle, Plymouth, and  afterwards at the Efford Crematorium.

Following his death the business was taken over by Messrs Hill, Palmer and Edwards Limited, of Exeter.

The business was still operating in Newport Street the early 1970s but the circumstances surrounding the demise of Messrs Uglow's Bakeries Limited are not recorded.