Cake Shop - $$2.50
For centuries Banbury, England has been known for its famous Banbury Cakes since 1638 which are sugared puff pastry filled with currents and dried fruit that nobody else wants to deal with.
The Famous Banbury Cake Shop.
For centuries Banbury, England has been known for its famous Banbury Cakes since 1638 which are sugared puff pastry filled with currents and dried fruit that nobody else wants to deal with.
The last owner of this ORIGINAL Banbury cake shop (then in a rundown condition), instead of fixing it up, one early Sunday morning in 1969, leveled this fine old registered building. After the dust settled, legal and otherwise, he built a brick boxy building renting it to shops.
This model was designed entirely from old pictures and articles and is included in the collection to honor it's special place in Banbury's history.
Dear Sirs,
While searching the web for references to Banbury Cakes I was interested to find your page relating to the card model of the Original Cake Shop. However, I was rather disturbed to read your description of the ingredients of the Banbury Cake- "dried fruit that nobody else wants to deal with". I would like to assure you that only the finest ingredients are used in the making of Brown's Original Banbury Cakes. In fact, Brown's Original Banbury Cakes were included in The Independants "The 50 best British foods" last Saturday. The Sunday Telegraph is also due to report on them in the near future. My fellow director, Philip Brown, and his family were associated with the Original Cake Shop from 1818 until circumstances forced them to sell in 1967. The family were distraught to learn of the plan to demolish the building and fought hard to try and save it. But as you comment, the developer was unscrupulous and went ahead with his plan despite the controversy.
Yours faithfully,
Nick Faulkner Director
Hi,
I’m Callum from Banbury and I’m building the website banburyshire.com as a side project.
I just came across your cake shop model on the website and wanted to reach out. Are you still making these?
It’s a shame that they demolished the building and the original Banbury Cakes website closed down at some point. I’ve been trying to get hold of the owner of the banburycakes.co.uk website to resurrect it for some time now without any luck.
Cheers,
Callum Bonnyman
(September 28, 2026)
Hi Callum,
I’m Scott Fyn from Arizona and my father, Chip Fyn, used to print his models (including this one) on postcards in the building that replaced the Banbury Cakeshop on Parsons Street. I lovingly called it the "Center of Fiddler's Green European Operations" back in the 1990s when he was active in the area. His postcard models quickly became popular all over England as a result of that effort.
The original Cakeshop postcards have become valuable collectibles because they had unique variations, especially those from the beginning of the press run as Dad was adjusting the colors by hand on the Multi printing press. He did his color separations manually using handmade plates because regular color separations were very expensive at the time. This made the original postcards more of a "craft" item due to the range of color variations it produced.
I've included a link to your website below, where people can find the original recipe by clicking on the picture, but your home page for that site is definitely worth checking out. It's the Coolest Banbury Website I have ever seen.
Cheers back to ya,Scott Fyn (September 28, 2026)
