Hush! Can you hear it? I thought I heard giggling….

In my time there was no oven in the bakery, it was where the maids lived. The young men in the area were fully aware of their present, and from time to time there was an occasional courtship. Well, It was hardly marriage they were looking for.
 
 
During the day the maids were so busy with work that no major watch was necessary, but at night it was worse. In order to keep track, we had our bedroom on the west side of our house. I had the bed under the window you see on the upper left. From there I had good view of both doors into the bakery.
 
In my time Children born out of wedlock wore a sin and I wouldn’t tolerate it under my watch.
The bakery has been at Ørnes Trading post for a long time. And even though we call it the Bakery, it has not always been used for baking. It has been built in several stages and it seems that the oldest part has been moved here from another place. This building had only 2 rooms and 1 floor.
 
During the 19th century, this small place gradually began to become more prosperous. They invested in new land and the estate kept getting bigger. With increased activity and more people at work comes the need for more living space. The bakery was expanded during the first decades of the 19th century. It was extended to the north, west and east and an upper floor was built. During this time, the building was mainly used for storing food and clothes, but also for sleeping.
At this time there was no heating in the building, so I'm sad to say the maids were terribly cold in the winter. This was improved at the end of the 19th century when a chimney was built.
 
 
In the 20th century it gradually became clear that the best years of the trading post had passed. The bakery was then rebult for something more usable. It was at this point a baking oven was installed, and the upper floor was used as an office. The last baker was called Aksel Johansen and came from Lofoten.
 
Today, there is little evidence of the old baking oven. During a condition assessment ahead of extensive restoration work in the 80s, it was written that you could see the baking oven in the basement. Most likely, the last traces disappeared during the restoration work.
Just like 100 years earlier, at the beginning of the 2000s there was again a need to change the building into something more usable. The Nordlandsmuseet, which today operates the facility, uses the bakery for exhibition of operation musketoon. An exciting story from the days of the war.

Subject text: Helge Seim

Screenplay: Helge Seim og Jan Ivar Bårtvedt

Voice:  Miriam Sollie Iversen

Editing: Helge seim

Musikk og Lydeffekter: freesound.org

Sources:

Documents

• -Kyllingstad Røyne (1959) Det store eksamensarbeid, Handelsstedet Kjerringøy Norges Tekniske Høgskole
• Fulsås Narve (1983) Voksten og fallet til ein nordlandsk handelstad. Kjerringøy i K. Zahl si tid, 1850-1900. Hovudoppgåve i historie Tromsø
• Gulowsen Jon (2008) Hundre år i utakt s.178-185 nytt norsk tidskrift bind 25.

Books

•  Knutsen Nils M. (1988) Nessekongene Gyldendal norske forlag
• Kiil A. (1940) Nordlandshandelen i det 17.århundre Trykt for Fridtjof Nansens fond
• Ytreberg (1941) Nordlandske handelsteder  Bruns Bokhandel forlag
• Engelstad Eivind S. (1954) ”Hos Bernhoft på Ørnes”, i Norsk Hydro
• Moe, Knut (1981) Gård og grend: Meløy: Bind 2
• Stamtavle over Slægten Bernhof, Emilie Bernhoft, (1885) Chr. Gundersens Bogtrykkeri

Interviews

• Klara Sletten, Spildra, 15. september 2010, av Håvard J. Nilsen
• Liv Strand, Ørnes, 15. september 2010, av Håvard J. Nilsen
• Rolf Dybvik, Dybvik, 11. oktober 2010, av Håvard J. Nilsen
• Gerd Myrvang, Glomfjord, 8. november 2010, av Håvard J. Nilsen