00:00 It's very important to support your small shop.
00:03 If you don't support, you will lose them.
00:06 It's as simple as that.
00:08 And the thing is, for small businesses, our costs are going up and up and up.
00:12 And we obviously have to put our prices up.
00:15 We have to try and manage with everything, with the electricity costs.
00:22 And people may or may not know the flour costs have been astronomical,
00:27 especially since the war in Ukraine.
00:30 The flour went up massively.
00:33 But we try and keep our costs down. We do what we can.
00:38 They say heroes come in many forms.
00:41 Well, today I am visiting the Split Tin Bakery
00:44 that has been serving the Bristol community freshly baked goods for over 45 years
00:50 and has been in the same family for the entire time.
00:53 Let's chat to the bakery owner to find out more.
00:57 We are at the Split Tin Bakery, Redland, Bristol.
01:00 The tin was founded 45 years ago by my dad.
01:03 It's a family bakery.
01:06 I work here. My husband works here. Our son Harry, he works here.
01:10 My sister, she works in the shop.
01:13 And yeah, it's just a third generation now, family bakery.
01:17 It's great. I mean, we all work very well as a team.
01:21 We all get on very well.
01:24 I'm not saying we don't always see eye to eye on things, but family doesn't really.
01:29 But yeah, it's great. Yeah, and we're very proud that our son's now coming sometimes just to chat.
01:34 They buy things and they like to chat.
01:36 And you get to know your locals.
01:38 You worry about your little, like, elderly people.
01:41 And it's very much, we're very much community based here, us and all the other shopkeepers.
01:46 Yeah, we're a very close-knit community.
01:49 When my father started the business, I was nine years old.
01:52 And we have customers now that remember me when I was that small.
01:56 And yeah, it's great. Yeah. Yeah.
01:59 Yeah, we see people, you know, the kids growing up, going to school.
02:04 The cost of living crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic have massively impacted local businesses in the last few years.
02:13 Let's find out more about the impact on the Split Tin Bakery.
02:16 Very, very busy for us because we were obviously an essential.
02:20 It was also quite scary for us.
02:22 I'm not, you know, because we were all masked up.
02:25 My husband, we had all the perspex up, hand gel, and you was, everyone knows.
02:31 But yeah, I mean, we were very lucky that none of us actually caught COVID.
02:37 We actually caught COVID after the pandemic, if that makes sense.
02:41 When everything was, the fact that none of us actually went down with it was, we were very lucky.
02:47 Very lucky.
02:49 It is fair to say that the Split Tin Bakery has stood the test of time,
02:54 bringing deliciously fresh baked goods to the community for over 45 years,
02:59 with no sign of closing any time soon.
03:03 Thank you.
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