longest established bakers 
Like his father before him, David Goodfellow was a Dundee baker who, in his early 20s, went to work in his Uncle Stewart Goodfellow’s bakery in Broughty Ferry. There, he met and fell in love with young Margaret Steven, herself only recently having moved to Broughty Ferry from Blairgowrie. He worked in the bakery and she in the shop.
Together, they saw the opportunities for business in Dundee’s rapidly expanding suburb, and felt they could do a better job than Uncle Stewart, so they decided to set up on their own. With money borrowed from Margaret’s uncle, they opened their new shop at 79 Gray Street in Broughty Ferry, renting the bakery behind. With that, the Goodfellow & Steven business partnership was born! They soon became well known for David’s most excellent pies, pastries, cakes and celebration cakes in Broughty Ferry, with excellent customer service provided by Margaret (who had a strong business head on her- kind, but took no nonsense!).
In a whirlwind of success, within just a few years, they had got married, purchased and moved to a much larger shop on the same street (still our flagship shop), started a family and moved to the spacious flat above the shop (where I am writing this). In addition, they expanded their bakery, started a catering business and purchased one of those new motorised delivery vehicles (in an era when that was really a BIG deal)!
Of their three sons, William and Alister joined their parents in the business when they grew up and so in turn did their families… until in the present day when there is me, more than one hundred and twenty five years after the start, writing this paragraph!
Many of our recipes are still the same as they were more than one hundred and twenty five years ago (and probably much earlier as our family have been bakers since at least the 1700s), and we still maintain the quality of our products and service to the same high standard.
To find out more about the history of the business, the family and Broughty Ferry, go to the menu choice named “Bread In The Bones” below and download this fascinating book.
Martin Goodfellow
Bread in the Bones
Download our company history book here. “Bread in the Bones” was written in 1997 on the occasion of our centenary by my father, David Goodfellow, the grandson of David and Margaret!
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We Need More Meringues
We purchased a bakery, restaurant and ballroom in the town of Arbroath in 1954. Here, Ronald Goodfellow, grandson of David and Margaret, reminiscences about Goodfellow & Steven (Arbroath) Ltd and the town of Arbroath at the time.
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