THE seaside village of lies three miles south of Ulverston, in the civil parish of Aldingham.
The name was earlier spelled Baycliffe and some residents who grew up there still use that spelling.
PIE: Phil Wood with a selection of pies at The Farm Shop, Baycliffe, in 2003
In 2003 one of The Mail’s weekly business profiles featured The Farm Shop in the village, which was run by Martin and Helen Barlow.
The article referred to how 16 years earlier Martin, working as a small farmer and selling home-made vegetables, needed a new potato store.
Having previously been involved in building work he was determined to make a good job of it. So much so, in fact, that his neighbours joked: “What are you building? A farm shop?”
The idea appealed and Martin turned his would-be potato store into a farm shop.
In 2003 he and Helen were running the highly-successful The Farm Shop, Baycliffe, a butchers, bakers and catering service that had expanded to take in the original Farm Shop plus business outlets in Ulverston Market, Amphitrite Street on Walney, a café in Barrow Market and a busy butchers, bakers and café in Barrow’s Portland Walk shopping precinct.
CHARITY: The Evening Mail’s charitable trust donated £200 for the village playground to Baycliff Community Association in 1997
Were they out of the way in a little village just off the Coast Road between Barrow and Ulverston? “Not really,” said Helen. “We have our regular customers and other people see our signs on the roadside and come in.
“They are often surprised to find a high-class butchers and bakers shop in the village of a small village.”
The confectionery department produced a wide selection of celebration cakes.
The Farm Shop employed 38 people in 2003. As well as the butchers and bakers, the business had developed a busy outside catering department.
FARMING: Inside at The Farm Shop, Baycliffe, in 1993
Back in 1998, The Mail reported how youngsters in Baycliff were celebrating after a £200 cheque was handed over to help pay for a new slide in the village playground.
Chairman of Baycliff Community Association Jennifer Hill received the cheque from Ian Meldrum, Cumbrian representative of the National Playing Fields Association of Great Britain.
Nine years later, in 1997, the Evening Mail's charitable trust gave £200 to the community association for the playground.
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