T E Ikin, Baker and Confectioner.  

Thomas Edwin Ikin was born in 1877 in Wrockwardine Wood, and baptised on 2nd August in Wombridge Church. In 1901 he is recorded as owning his shop in Oakengates, where he won prizes for his pies and bread. In 1902 he married Eleanor Martha Turner in Whitchurch, and he died in 1939. His wife predeceased him, dying in 1932 and they are buried together in Red Lake churchyard. Information from Barry Deakin, Mr Ikin being his great-uncle. Photos courtesy of Malcolm Westbrook

Oxford St, now the site of the Post Office

Mr Ikin

Mrs Ikin