‘It began with cider’: how a group of young parents transformed a Somerset harbour

From pub nights to hard hats, the locals-run Onion Collective made East Quay arts centre in Watchet, Somerset, a realityWalk along Watchet’s harbour front and you’d be forgiven for thinking a jumble of colourful containers had been blown in off the sea by a particularly severe storm. But this bizarre, piratical encampment featuring a candy-striped triangular roof and boxes on stilts is actually the new East Quay arts centre, a community-driven project whose origins are as unlikely as