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Kingsley Vallis with his sultana cake, which won him a runners-up place in the area finals of a national baking competition at the Randolph Hotel, Oxford, in 1980 THE motto of the Vallis bakery family was “new bread for breakfast”. Customers were promised that a fresh loaf would always be on their table for the first meal of the day. Four generations of the family supplied bread, cakes and other products to customers from their base at Headington Quarry, Oxford, for more than a century. Many readers will remember William Vallis, who ran the business for more than 50 years. His ancestors were stonemasons coming, like many families, from other parts of the country to work on the Headington quarries, which supplied much of the stone needed for the spate of building in Oxford following the Reformation.