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England Preserves is delighted to have some beautiful gift packaging available to order alongside our preserves. The gift packaging will be dispatched flat so that it can be filled with your, or your customers choice of preserves. The assembly is intuitive and takes no more than a few seconds.The packaging features our new pattern, again sourced from The Curwen Press and is designed by the artist Margaret Calkin James (1895 - 1985) a prolific artist and designer and the first woman to open a gallery. You will start to see this pattern on our seasonal specials for retail and food...

I came accross this photograph in the back of an old diary and on the cusp of launching our new website it seemed like an appropriate time to look back to 2001 with a bit of bleary eyed nostalgia. This was literally the beginning for England Preserves. Tiny batches made on a domestic stove in our flat in Wood Green. Hand written labels and early mornings at the farmers' market. Although still a small business, we have come a very long way and when I see this photograph perhaps it was Kai's literal wide eyed enthusiasm that kept us going. ...