Comments on: Passing Trade

By: Peter Bailey

Peter Bailey — Wed, 05 Oct 2016 19:57:24 +0000

Lovely to see Eleanor’s caff pictures. I wish I could see the show. Thanks for showing them.

By: Linda Hayes

Linda Hayes — Wed, 05 Oct 2016 13:31:14 +0000

Rossi Restaurant was originally Jacks Cafe which opened with fresh food at 5am ready for the porters of spitalfields mkt . My parents Jack and Glen work extremely hard in that cafe to keep high standards for there customers both the mkt boys and then the office workers at midday .
Unfortunately Jack my dad pass away 11 yrs ago. But Mum is 94yrs old and still a beautiful
Lady

By: Ros

Ros — Wed, 05 Oct 2016 11:05:58 +0000

Very good to see these fresh and vivid watercolours again. Also very sad to see how many of these cafes, which I agree are the essence of civility, have closed in the 3 years since you last featured them.

By: Lynne Perrella

Lynne Perrella — Wed, 05 Oct 2016 10:29:49 +0000

This series tugged at my heart. I grew up in a town in Western Pennsylvania that has totally disappeared due to an onslaught of drugs and accompanying misery. But, in my mind, I still see
the storefronts, signage, friendly sales help, a newsstand/tobacco shop, small family-style restaurants serving comfort food, two bakeries and (goodness!) a ladies hat shop. After school, the familiar cry was “Meet you at Harvey’s”……a corner dinette serving the local specialty “Forty With”. (a plate of French fries with gravy). Looking at Eleanour’s work, I am grateful for her dedication, preservation, and skill at capturing an earlier time — and awakening my own fond memories of a long-lost place. Thank you.

By: Iain chambers

Iain chambers — Wed, 05 Oct 2016 08:26:10 +0000

Beautiful pictures, really vivid colours

By: Phil Maxwell

Phil Maxwell — Wed, 05 Oct 2016 08:06:01 +0000

The ‘passing trade’ caught in these marvelous watercolours may soon disappear. Eleanour’s work captures part of the colour and culture of the East End with great affection and sensitivity.

By: Greg Tingey

Greg Tingey — Wed, 05 Oct 2016 07:00:21 +0000

“A former Ironmonger’s shop”
“Isons” – I remember Frank Ison, always wearing a brown store-coat.
Where to go if you wanted paraffin for your heaters in the pre-central-heating days of the 1950’s.
And all sorts of other useful stuff.
My potato-peeler came out of Isons, many, many years ago.

By: Jan Toms

Jan Toms — Wed, 05 Oct 2016 06:50:24 +0000

I can actually smell the lovely, steamy waft of cooked breakfasts and chips!

By: Lee

Lee — Wed, 05 Oct 2016 06:21:44 +0000

I was saddened too see Billy Bunters cafe Mile End rd has gone we stopped there many anight when I worked nights on the railway some years back. Ow do you know when and why it went thanks lee