Ormskirk became famous for its gingerbread recipe and the working-class 'Gingerbread Ladies' who sold the snack out of wicker baskets. These Victorian girl-bosses were savvy entrepreneurs who ...

Gingerbread was incredibly popular in the north of England thanks to the gingerbread ladies of Ormskirk, who began making it as early as 1732. It was so popular, in fact, that King Edward VII ...