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artist Eleanor Crow's watercolors celebrate the beauty of London classic showcase is on display in the capital.

Arthur 's Cafe, Kingsland Road , Dalston

Arthur Woodham opened his own café, in 1948, after he'd previously worked in his father's cafe with the same name just up The Street .

the Young Arthur ran his 70 years, until 90, and his wife, Eileen, and in the last few years, grandson James.

Spotless and serves home-cooked Breakfast, followed by a traditional lunch with hand cut chips, this famous destination has been visited by loyal customers for seven decades, until its closure in the year 2018.

Barneys seafood, Chamber Street, Tower Bridge

Tucked under a railway arch near The Tower of London, this legendary eel, fish and seafood shop, which pulls in crowds of East Enders, eager for eels, freshly cooked on the premises.

The Founder , Barney Gritzman, was the brother of Solly Gritzman, owner of the famous Tubby Isaac's jellied eel stall. Barney opened his business before the beginning of the second World War , and it was run by the key family, acting under the name Barney's, since 1970.

C W Tyzack, Kingsland Road , Shoreditch, London

Cecil Tyzack founded his company in 1936, and his shop, further down the Kingsland Road , Arthur 's cafe, is still open, although they are no longer in the possession of the Tyzacks.

the name of The Family lives, as the hand - and power-tool manufacturer, Tyzack Machine Knives.

Cecil was born into a branch of The Family Tyzack is the saw-makers, from Sheffield to London in the year 1839. It produces and sells tools from a sequence of shops in the Old road to the beginning of This Century .

Today is a vintage Tyzack tools are popular with collectors.

Daniel Lewis & son, Hackney Road, Cambridge Heath

This London was built, the oldest blacksmith, originally founded by the statement & sons, in 1797, purpose-as a business and factory.

In the 1890s, it was W H Clark Ltd.

Daniel Lewis, who took over as a junior in 1948, The Business in 1971 and continued trading under the name Clark.

Daniel's son, David, was there from 1992 and named it after his father in the year 2002.

In 2012, he was forced to close when the Council regulations prevent customers Parking and limited supplies.

Since I painted it, the shopfront has been replaced by a new replica is a close copy of this Georgian original.

to the end, the original interior with All its fittings, and the production workshops at the back, survived, revealed how The Business has developed, delivers, first, the Trainer-development of the industry, And Then , metal construction, architects and sculptors.

The kitchen, Stoke Newington High Street, Stoke Newington

the drawing shows an unusually short queue. Often, The Line of customers stretches All the way down The Road , which is always a good Sign - reveals that the meat is worth The Wait .

I guess this facade, with its mid-century script in red on a glazed background, a red canopy and grinning butcher ends of the mannequin, welcome the customers inside.

Sewell's, Plaistow Road, Plaistow

The florist is celebrated in Plaistow from the Sewell family since The 1930S , and for his brilliant window displays.

I painted it during The Tour de France, when The Window featured two bicycles decorated with flowers below the strings of Bunting - All In yellow and adorned with Union Jacks in support of our team.

The width of the roadway allows for a light-hearted range of bedding plants to outside customers, before you enter the fragrant interior, filled with buckets of cut flowers.

Syd's, Calvert Avenue, Shoreditch, London

London's oldest coffee stall is open for a century and is still of Sydney Tothiss granddaughter, Jane.

mahogany refreshment stall is one of my favorite sights of London. It has once of the pitch only to be in the film Ebb Tide , with Chili Bouchier , 1931.

The stall is open 24 hours A Day in the second World War , when The War office brought the son of Syd's (Syd) back from a Secret Mission for the supply with hot tea to fight back the ambulance and a fire during the London Blitz, according to Syd senior was traumatized by a bomb that exploded in the vicinity.

you can work on up to 20. October and is published by Spitalfields Life Books , in cooperation with Batsford Books .

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