Tailor Edward Sexton, who has died aged 80, photographed in 2020 - Clara Molden

As a young man growing up in Dagenham in the 1950s, Edward Sexton’s father – a public health inspector – instructed him to find a trade and stick to it. “He said, ‘when you have a trade in your hand, you’re your own master,’” Sexton told me back in 2016.