Taylor Alison Swift is an American singer-songwriter. She is known for narrative songs about her personal life, which have received widespread media coverage. At age 14, Swift became the youngest artist signed by the Sony/ATV Music publishing house and, at 15, she signed her first record deal.
Her 2006 eponymous debut album was the longest-charting album of the 2000s in the US. Its third single, "Our Song", made her the youngest person to single-handedly write and perform a number-one song on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. Swift's second album, Fearless, was released in 2008.
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Farewell to the much-loved bakery shutting after '94 years of blood, sweat and tears'
manchestereveningnews.co.ukMartin Hobson's grandparents - Harry and Marion - started Hobson’s in Reddish the day after they were married in the June of 1929. “They sold anything and everything,” Martin says. “Traded whatever they could.
You did what you had to in those mid-war times. Black market, buying, selling. We still sold cigarettes until about 40 years ago.” It’s only - only - been a bakery for the past 60 years or so, he says, when his father Peter decided to adapt the business and move things on from being a general store. READ MORE: Join our new WhatsApp community Manc Life “The reason Hobson’s has been trading all this time is because we’ve been flexible like that, we’ve moved with the times,” Martin adds. “We’ve evolved.” Astonishingly, some of that same equipment endures.
The ‘Little Champion’ pie press, which presses out pork pies, has been there as long as their baker Mark has, and he’s been there 35 years.
It is likely a good 60 or more years old and used every single day. The laminator for the puff pastry which wraps the sausage rolls, and which is all made from scratch, is a few decades old too.
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