From this shop and bakery, the business has grown to having seven shops, all supplying Ivor Dewdney's own special brand of pasties. The business today is now run by Ivor's grandchildren, who are proud to carry on the fine traditions that have made the Ivor Dewdney pasty special.

Ivor Dewdney started this business by making and cooking his own pasties in his mother's kitchen and then selling them from a barrow.

He built up a steady trade and in the 1930s he opened his first shop in King St Plymouth. Many people told Ivor that his venture would never work and that a shop that sold just pasties would never last, over seventy years later and we are still going strong. Plymouth was heavily bombed during the blitz in WWII and after the war Ivor moved the business to its present site in Cornwall Street to a purpose built shop and bakehouse. This was the first shop to be built in Cornwall Street and although the outside appearance has changed a bit we are still making our pasties by hand in the same way that Ivor did when he first started.