Harold Sheldon joins the baking trade.

Harold Sheldon joins the baking trade.

On leaving school, young and began work as a baker for Horrock’s bakers in Goodier Street, Newton Heath, Manchester. Harold learned the basics of the baking trade and also worked as a van boy helping on deliveries. Never one for standing around idly, when he wasn’t baking or on the vans, Harold worked as a stable boy to the horses that used to pull the bread vans.