Joanne Ross has moved to new premises in Hockley, Essex after finally pulling the shutter down for the last time on her florist shop in Bethnal Green’s Globe Town market square in the Roman Road after 30 years. The shop was near the spot where her granddad started a greengrocery stall in the 1920s. Joanne started before she got the shop selling fresh flowers from a market stall which she took over from her dad, ex-London docker Colin Ross. But it was Joanne’s granddad Bob Wheeler who started the family business in the 1920s with a stall “down The Roman” selling greengrocery, until he retired in 1986.