I thought I’d
pick a pretty picture to start the New Year. This gorgeous mosaic sign
decorates the doorway of the Fly in the Loaf in Hardman Street, Liverpool. The
bar takes its name from the slogan of the Kirklands bakery which once occupied
this spot – they claimed there were “no flies in the loaf”. Already appointed
as bakers to Queen Victoria, Kirklands opened this building in 1888. According
to a Liverpool Mercury article at the time, the bakery was designed to be “a
perfectly sanitary bakehouse, combining all the best health arrangements”. It
continued as a bakery until the 1970s.
