CAKES and loaves had to make way as one bakery worker smuggled the Rolling Stones out of a Dorchester hotel.

Reader Terry Coutts, 85, has been in touch after reading a story in the Echo about the King’s Arms Hotel in Dorchester. The hotel will now be opening in 2018.

But Terry said that you couldn’t get in or out of the place in the early 60s when Mick Jagger and the Rolling Stones stayed at the hotel and caused quite a stir.

At the time, Terry worked for George’s Bakery in Wyke Regis, Weymouth. He used to deliver bread to the stores in Dorchester. One morning the manager of the King’s Arms asked him to do him a favour- to smuggle the rock band out in his bakery van.

Terry said: “They couldn’t get out of the hotel at all. They couldn’t get their car out. I have never seen so many crowds. Dorchester hasn’t seen crowds like it since.”

People were packing around the hotel at the front and the back and the Rolling Stones couldn’t escape their adoring fans.

Terry said: “I put them in the back of the van. I pushed the cakes and bread to one side. I drove them to a safe place, where I knew they would be safe. Then I went back and got their car.”

He drove them to a quiet back street in the county town and snuck back to the hotel to pick up their car so the rock stars could make a quiet getaway.

Terry said: “They were very grateful, they said thank you.”

Do you remember when the rock stars came to Dorchester? Did you get any photos? We’d love to see them in Looking Back!