Farewell to Percy Ingle, the East End family bakery
As Percy Ingle Bakeries, the 66-year-old East End baking empire, closes its doors, we look back over the company’s history.
As Percy Ingle Bakeries, the 66-year-old East End baking empire, closes its doors, we look back over the company’s history.
Baxter often works the allotment with his younger son, often enjoying Sunday lunch there with the rest of his family. ‘It’s really a rewarding activity for kids I think, because you get to look after and nurture something, and see it grow.’
Chisenhale Art Place, the imposing red brick warehouse set on the Hertford Canal on Chisenhale Road, has housed artists, sculptors and dancers since the1980s yet its origin remains little-known by locals.
‘Sense of community is the soul of this area, Roman Road included. I felt so out of place when I first came to London but Tower Hamlets has been at the root of all my relationships with people of varying ethnicities, races and genders (or lack thereof).’
We talk to social photographer and East End native, Rehan Jamil, about his latest project Full English, about what it means to British and Muslim, and the importance of documenting the changing faces of East London.
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Candace Reading was confronted with the fact that her son, Finlay, had achondroplasia, a common form of dwarfism, 38 weeks
Lottie Lee-Gough, 31, hasn’t bought any new clothes in a year. As soon as she could successfully make clothes herself
One of our favourite things about Roman Road is how everyone – cafes, shops and houses alike – gets into
Trevor Culling is the neighbourhood’s silent and often invisible friend, delivering milk to door steps around Roman Road when the
Ronnie Whelan, 54, is searching for himself. A one-time user of the Bow Foodbank, he has volunteered there for ten
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