PEOPLE queuing for bread in Desborough Road, High Wycombe, in 1974 after the Bakers Union supported a strike for higher pay. A scramble for flour and yeast also took place to home-bake loaves.

The bakers who saved the day for many people by continuing to bake bread were members of the Aylesbury Association of Master Bakers, who had a membership of around 60 private bakers throughout the county.

Bob Lee, the president of the Aylesbury Association of Master Bakers, who had three bread shops in Marlow, Bourne End and Flackwell Heath, told the Bucks Free Press at the time:"Most of them are doubling their production and rationing loaves to one or one-and-a-half per person."

There was a queue around 18 metres long and three people deep outside R.Nixon's Bakery at Wooburn Green before 9am and waited for nearly two hours for fresh yeast to arrive at the health shop in the Octagon in High Wycombe.

People even bought gluten and protein free bread and shops all over South Bucks ran out of bread-making ingredients.

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