NO doubt you remember my appeal for details of the Bolton Bread Show, which arose after a correspondent said that she had a couple of medals won in that show in 1912.

Local historian Clifford Stockton came up with the details, on February 24, and mentioned that a number of medals had come onto the market recently, from the collection of Bolton baker John Lonsdale, who seemingly won more than 200 medals from all over the country for his baking.

I have now had an e-mail from reader Jill Riding, who had not heard of the Bolton Bread Show "but may be able to throw some light onto the Lonsdale family.

"My late husband was John Lonsdale, the eldest of three sons," she writes. "His father Thomas, and Uncle Jack were both in the bakery business. John followed into the family business and became a Master Baker with Lonsdale's Bakery. I have no knowledge of any of the family previous to them.

"John left the bakery soon after the takeover by Spillers, and he died in 1972. He left three children, Sarah, Christopher and William, none of whom went into the bakery business."