The National Bakery Awards took place this week, celebrating the very best bakers and bakeries in the UK.On his very first day in office, our brand new Master William Marle presented the WCB Young Baker of the Year award to Alice Dent.We were also thrilled to see Daniel Cartwright and Elisha Francis from the Henllan […]
Category: 2025
70 Years of the BSB
Congratulations are due to the British Society of Baking, which celebrates its 70th Anniversary this year. The Master Baker Peter Baker joined them at their autumnal conference for the occasion.Pictured above are nine previous BSB Chairmen, eight of whom are Liverymen of the Worshipful Company of Bakers. […]
Open House, Open Hall
Bakers Hall opened its doors this Saturday for the Open House London Festival, the second time we have participated. During the day, an exhausting 719 members of the public took the chance to visit. On offer were – a chance to learn more about the Company and the current Hall through our Court and Livery […]
Northern Flour Power
Kicking off the new season, our band of Northern Hub Liverymen visited WM. NELSTROP & CO. LTD on the 1st September. This was the third meeting of this new group, formed to give a northern focus of events to Liverymen living in the North, away from the bright lights and costs of London.Milling 600 tonnes of grain […]
Best of German Baking
At the end of July, a group of bakers, apprentices and bakery students travelled to the Akademie Deutsches Bäckerhandwerk Weinheim to learn about the German baking culture. Under the tuition of two excellent teachers; Wolfgang Furtner and Hamish Morrin; they had an opportunity to bake some of the most iconic products in the German Bakery […]
The Master’s Art
The Master describes his day out:The Master’s Day out this year was held at the Goodwood Estate in West Sussex. The group met at the new Art Foundation which was opened very recently, at the end of May. The Foundation is a not-for-profit charity which has three pillars underpinning all that they do, Art, Education […]
Brilliant Baking for ABST 2025
The nation’s bakery students descended on the ABST’s 100th Anniversary conference at Alton Towers recently.Master Peter baker and Assistant Sara Autton were part of the judging team.Our particular congratulations go to Archie Steel who was awarded the Master’s Award for Best Loaf in Show, and Ethan Avis who was awarded the Master’s Cup.The young bakers […]
Tea at the Villas
The Master, Second Warden and Under Warden made a visit to the Bakers’ Benevolent Society Bakers’ Villas at Epping this week. Following the Society AGM, they were treated to a wonderful sandwich lunch, al fresco, with some of the residents, followed by lots of cake. It was a great opportunity to chat and to hear their […]
New Zealand’s Finest
It is a privilege to welcome Delmari Janse Van Rensburg, New Zealand’s 2024 Young Baker of the Year, to London this week. Delmari has also recently represented New Zealand in an Australian competition, which she also won, so is now also Australasia’s best newly graduated apprentice, an impressive achievement.As part of her stay, our Past […]
Garden Party 2025
Relaxing in the Palace Gardens The Master Baker Peter Baker and his Consort Lydia enjoyed a splendid afternoon at a Buckingham Palace Garden Party, by kind invitation of His Majesty King Charles. Peter and Lydia joined other livery Masters for a quintessentially English afternoon tea, with musical entertainement. Happily, the day was dry, so no rain […]