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Lee's Family Bakers

A three-generation family bakery established in 1971, baking fresh bread, pastries, pies, cakes and made-to-order celebration cakes on the premises.

350 Stanhope Road, South Shields, Tyne and Wear, NE33 4RB0191 456 0662

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