Martin Hobson's grandparents - Harry and Marion - started Hobson’s in Reddish the day after they were married in the June of 1929. “They sold anything and everything,” Martin says.
“Traded whatever they could. You did what you had to in those mid-war times. Black market, buying, selling. We still sold cigarettes until about 40 years ago.”
It’s only - only - been a bakery for the past 60 years or so, he says, when his father Peter decided to adapt the business and move things on from being a general store.
