Cooks Pie Shop

My family and the Cooke family go back a very long way in this area. My family's toy making shop on Broadway market died out a generation ago with my great grandfather though my grandfather continued to bring up his son, my dad in this area and dad, in turn, his six children. I'm the last one left of the family still living in the locality. The Cooke family pie and mash shop was an enduring feature of Broadway market throughout. Such a shame that old man Cooke has decided to sell up. It will be a sad day on Broadway market when he gets a buyer and we lose one of the last remaining pie and mash shops still in existence in the East End. The passing of the pie and mash shops has been one of the negative things about the gentrification of the area. Don't think this new lot that have taken over the area and ripped away our roots will understand. All they want to do is walk in, take photos and walk out again. I can understand that old man Cooke has simply had enough and his daughter, who has set up a pie and mash shop in Essex, where a lot of the old EastEnders went out to, doesn't want to take on the original shop. Those of us that are left of the original EastEnders round here will mourn the passing of the Cooke's in this area.