Many a time I have enjoyed consuming warm bread, preferably with butter, bought from Marshals at Gedney Hill in Lincolnshire. Sadly no more the bakery in that shop has gone the way of many family businesses and is replaced by a Morrisons Local shop. I never realized that it was once an offence to sell warm bread until I spotted this headline from August 24th 1917:

In 1890 the industry of Lincolnshire was described thus: “Lincolnshire being almost wholly an agricultural county the manufactures are,...