The Great British Bake off 2018 begins tonight on Channel 4.

But local viewers tuning in might not know that star presenter Paul Hollywood began his journey to fame right here in York.

This photo from our archives shows the Breadwinner shop in Parliament Street, which his father John Hollywood ran in the 1980s.

The company also had branches in Middlesbrough, Lincoln and Hartlepool, but the company's offices were above the York shop - which was opened by guest-of-honour Ken Dodd in 1980.

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Breadwinner in Parliament Street in 1980

The building had previously been occupied for many years by printing company Burdekins.

Paul Hollywood has spoken before about how his early years in York sparked his baking career.

Writing in The Daily Telegraph in 2013, he said: "The headquarters were in York and all three of us kids would go over on the train to see him. My mum would put us on the train at Lime Street in Liverpool – she’d fork out for first class because she thought we’d be safer. Because I was the oldest, I was in charge until my dad would meet us off the train in York.

"His office was above the bakery and it was on those trips that I had my first real experience of what went on in a bakery. There would be five or six bakers working down there and, when we weren’t messing around making a den behind the big flour bags, I liked to help them.

"They’d let me measure out the sugar or put the jam in the doughnuts. I’d even earn a few quid off my dad. And perhaps it encouraged something in me – and our Lee. He’s got his own very successful bakery business now on the Wirral."

The York shop was the company's third when it opened in 1980, and The Evening Press reported that "the emphasis of the shop was on the production of real bread from traditional recipes."

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John Hollywood, pictured by The Evening Press in 1980.

The shop closed in 1984. Today, the building houses the Skipton Building Society.

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Then and now: 1980 and 2016