Joe Cooke is the owner of Cooke’s Pie and Mash shop in Hoxton, an East London institution that was founded by his great-grandfather Robert in 1862. According to Joe, his ancestor didn’t just own many pie and mash shops and pubs in the East End, he actually started the pie and mash business by sellingContinue reading “Pies for old-school Cockneys and people from all over the world”
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Chas’n Dave – the ‘Cockney ambassadors’
I met with Kate Garner at the beautiful Brasserie Zédel off Piccadilly Circus. Kate is not only a composer and musician in the London music hall tradition who often performs at Zédel’s, but also comes from a very musical North London family: she is the daughter of Chas Hodges from Chas’n Dave, the iconic CockneyContinue reading “Chas’n Dave – the ‘Cockney ambassadors’”
‘Cockney is such a comforting sound’
I met Hunter on his day off from his job as a head barista in a coffeeshop in Hampstead. But we stayed in his natural habitat, as he picked a lovely small café in Islington near where he lives. His family is from the East End and his mother was actually born ‘within the soundContinue reading “‘Cockney is such a comforting sound’”
Irish North Londoner
I met Ray in a very stylish café in Dalston that he chose. Ray was born in Leytonstone to Irish parents, but grew up in the Irish community in Holloway. He says he is a Londoner and Arsenal supporter, ‘but not British’. Ray calls his way of speaking ‘North London’, which to him stands outContinue reading “Irish North Londoner”
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