Butchers and bakers have always been a large part of British culture, dating back decades, as some of these pictures show.
Here are 24 past and present photos of staff members going about their day-to-day business across the Hartlepool area.
1. One a penny, two a penny, hot cross buns
Hot cross buns are baked at the former Co-op in Hartlepool. Photo: Hartlepool Mail
2. Fancy a breakfast pie?
Morrells & Sons introduces new breakfast pies in 2003. Photo: TC
3. Hamper winner
Brenda Breed is handed a hamper from store manager, Barry Varley, of J.G. Jones Butchers, in Wiltshire Way, in 2007. Photo: GW
4. Good pie sir?
Even the town's former MP, Iain Wright, couldn't help himself from having a Morrell's pie. Photo: Other, third party
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