A pie merchants where being “a family business is an understatement” has been nominated for the Lancashire Telegraph’s Best Bakery 2024.

Ten bakeries are battling it out for your votes, with Stables Pies being one of your finalists.

Having already become a staple across numerous East Lancashire shops, Stables Pies utilise some of the finest ingredients from around the world alongside some high-quality local produce.

Callum Robertson, owner of Stables Pies said: “We would be buzzing with winning because we are 99% wholesale, and the only time is when we do our pop-up shops which is the fourth one coming up.

“We are very excited that people recognise our pies which have been bought through other businesses.”

Stables Bakery has been a business since the 1920s, originally starting as a butcher’s shop that became well respected for its pies.

Having been sold through the Stables family, the business was bought by Callum, his wife, mum-in-law and sister-in-law in 2020.

Since buying it the family has doubled profits and continues to climb into years three and four.

Callum added: “To say we are a family business would be an understatement.

“We are the epitome of a family business, and we work our backsides off for each other. There are no places to hide when you are working with family.”

And one family member, Callum’s sister-in-law Hannah Croston, is the star member of the team.

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Having been diagnosed with autism late in life she struggled to get a job and Callum found working alongside her to be critical for the business.

Callum said: “There is literally nothing she won’t do in that bakery to make it work.

“From being a fragile young girl with autism who didn’t know how to get a job or do an interview for a job or anything like that to become the women that she has is unreal.

“I would genuinely be gutted if she ever left us. She would work her socks off everywhere and she is the same as having two staff members.”

Famed for their pork, which they sell over 4,000 units a week, the company have expanded into running pop-up events.

Running out of their unit in Barrow they offer their standard pies with a special twist and include a pork and black pudding pie, pork and piccalilli, pork and apple, steak and stilton and chicken and leek.

Their next event will be held this Saturday, September 7.

Readers will be able to vote for the ‘Best Bakery 2024’ by picking up copies of the Lancashire Telegraph between Monday, September 2 and Saturday, September 14, with the winner announced the week commencing September 23.