There are not many things in life which transcend generations and remain exactly the same. But in Swansea, since 1933, there's been one bakery which has been ever present, selling homemade food with the same recipes as your mum or dad may have tried when they were younger.
Kristy's Bakery, which can be found along Eversley Road in Sketty, is something of a city institution, and has won legions of loyal customers young and old for generations thanks to its famous custard slices, animal biscuits, Swansea pies and cocktail pies to name but a few. Its history is a fascinating one. It all started when Alice Marjorie Taylor - with help from her sister Kathleen - opened a small bakery and cafe on St Helen's Road, Swansea. Their popular shop sold bread, cakes and pies - the same recipes which are used to this day. Among the bakery's early customers, it is believed that a young Dylan Thomas used to visit the original cafe back in the mid-thirties.
Alice continued to build her new venture for a few years until war broke out and the bakery was bombed. But this didn't spell the end of Kristy's, with the sisters opening a new bakehouse in Alexandra Road. But the bad luck kept coming as the Alexandra Road bakery soon became another casualty of bomb damage, forcing them to change premises once again. In the early 1940s, the sisters made their final move to Eversley Road in Sketty, where the bakery has remained ever since.
