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[DJGAZZA]

Don't know if it's true but just read on FB Sammy Leivesley's closes down today. Used to be one of the best pie makers in St. Helens

[SKYMAN]

is that the bake house up by the theartre DJ.
QUITE SOON ,good pies in ST HELENS will become an history topic,

Edited by SKYMAN, 19 November 2011 - 05:45 PM.

[DJGAZZA]

That's the one, my dad used to order all the pack lunches for the Kids outing at PX Labour Club from there

[tessmop]

They opened a shop in Rainford after Pimbletts closed,it closed a few months back.

[SKYMAN]

when i was a kid a pie could be shared by many mouths, now you can nearly fit a pie in one mouth, (Big Gob, ),, ha ha

[gilly]

Sammy died quite a few years back and the business was carried on by his son in law.The name/business was then sold on but was never the same despite keeping the name.The actual bakery was on the corner of Charles and Tolver st and had a few shops round the town.I have many fond memories of Sammy and if the topic continues.i'll post a few.

[busybee]

How sad, like many in the town I grow up going to Sammy's. My Nan lived across the road from the shop and it was a ritual to go to Sammy's when ever we visited. At her funeral we had to have Sammy's pies, remember him sitting in the back room he often gave us freebies because my Nan went in ever day and knew all the family well.

Lots of fond memories.

[gilly]

Every Sat morning my mam used to give me half a doller and tell me to go and get a box of cakes from there.I used to spend 1/6d and go sammys about half four"What can we have for a shilling" i'd ask?Sammy used to give me a full box and a tanner change cuz they would have been wasted anyway.He was a star,a true gent.I wasn't the only one by the way

[Dicky D]

Might have been the best pies once upon a time and I can vouchsafe that they were good pies in the 70s, but when the original family bake house closed down and was taken over recently, they were nothing like the original. Pastry was thin and overworked and sasteless. Filling was short of seasoning.

[tessmop]

l agree DD.

[Thumpa lumpa]

We used to get steak pies from there in the 70's we called them suckers, we would bite one end and suck the juice out to save covering ourselves with it when we bit into the pie, they were brilliant back then.

[windle_alex]

Remember Sammy and have vivid memories. You could buy your pies and often be allowed a short cut through the back of the shop and see Sammy tending his brick ovens out in the yard! Almost Victorian eh?