Croydon history: the always-busy, ever-dependable Coughlans in the Allders Arcade. Both are now just fond memories of a bygone town centre
175 jobs to go across south London, Surrey and Sussex as family-run bakery based in Thornton Heath goes into voluntary liquidation
Coughlan’s bakers, their daily bread a staple of Croydon’s high streets for almost 90 years, has ceased trading.
The shock announcement was made on social media late yesterday by Sean Coughlan, the third generation to run the Thornton Heath-based family business. Around 175 jobs are likely to be lost across the company’s 31 stores across south London, in Surrey and Sussex.
Coughlan’s survived a World War, several financial disasters and, mostly, the covid…