Breaking Bread is a project celebrating baking in Waltham Forest, engaging with businesses, residents and the breads of different communities. It will invite local residents to join us in exploring 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.
This project will share the heritage and culture of bread and use it as a way of bringing people together, celebrating the skills of local bakers, sharing stories, recipes and histories, engaging people through events, demonstrations, a short film and a sharing event where a map of bakeries and other connected businesses will be made available.
The project will explore 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 flatbreads, gözleme, naan, cholla, bagels and sourdough. It will invite stories and images related to home baking, including those who came to it more recently during lockdown.
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, and publicity for an event sharing the printed maps.
The map of bakeries so far is below; please fill in the form to add your contribution!
Made possible by 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.