Breaking Bread is a project celebrating baking in Waltham Forest, engaging with businesses, residents and the breads of different communities. It explores this accessible and globally popular foodstuff, showing its importance in the history of Waltham Forest and the Lea Valley, something which unites communities across the world and shows skill and creativity in the many variations of its production, and shares the heritage and culture of bread, celebrating the skills of local bakers, sharing stories, recipes and histories.
The project explores local baking now and in the past, mapping and exploring the breads made by different communities in the borough, from the now closed Percy Ingle and May’s, to smaller businesses making a variety of different breads.
Part of the project will be delivered in collaboration with Victoria Dove, of Dove PR, who runs Instagram accounts for many small businesses in the borough. We will work together on engaging local businesses, content for a new Instagram account and the creation of a map of local bakeries across the borough.
Exhibition at Lea Bridge Library, London E10
4th – 29th June 2025
Bakery Walking Tour
Sunday 22nd June 2025, 11am
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Film Screening at the Bakers’ Almshouses, Lea Bridge Road
Friday 27th June 2025, 5-8pm
Funded by grants from Arts Council England and Waltham Forest Council’s Make It Happen grants programme.
Do you have more bakeries to add to the map? Fill in this form to submit them.
If you have images to contribute please tell us in the ‘Other info’ box.