The staff of life
Nick Churchill meets fourth-generation baker Steve Oxford
Published in May ’22
William Oxford, Steve’s great-great-uncle, who opened bakeries in Bournemouth, Westbourne and Lower Parkstone. ‘By opening in Canford Cliffs, really we have come home,’ says Steve
‘GIVE us this day our daily bread’. Few things are quite as primal as our daily bread. The Biblical staff of life, it has occupied a position of social, cultural and nutritional significance whenever and wherever mankind has turned its hand to baking it.
‘Making bread is what I do and the fact that it helps support the lives of the people that work for me and their families, as well as those of my own family, is one of the things in my life I’m most proud of,’ says Steve Oxford, the fourth generation of Oxfords to man the family bakery in Alweston, first opened…
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