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This is where Jane and I started the day. I’d never been to Leon before.

The food was nice and I love the graphics and illustrations they use,

but this is what impressed me most. A lovely postcard with this printed on the back. I think every eatery  should have them.

Lovely original shop front over the Ben Sherman shop.

I asked a very handsome man if I could stroke his Chiwawa. Not really my kind of dog but it was so sweet I’m sure I could be converted.

We had a wander round Rokit  vintage clothes shop

went to a little vintage market….

saw this gorgeous street art under a bridge….

and went to one of our favourite shops call The Shop which is full to the brim with old table cloths, silk scarves etc all very neatly folded but not in an intimidating way where you’re afraid to touch.

Beautiful old shop drawers in The shop.

Lovely old cinema seats….

I Can’t remember what this shop’s called but it’s on a corner and it’s worth a visit.

This shop really did rock ! It was lovely weather like today and they were playing records on an old turntable outside.

Downstairs were hundreds of old books nicely stacked on shelves all very cosy,

We then stumbled upon an amazing looking huge cake shop called Kahaila and had tea and cake.

It has gorgeous yellow walls with beautiful prints hanging.

We went in to the famous Beigel Bakery

where we allowed a quick look in the back room to see them making the beigels.

They were so friendly. This is the owner who started the shop about 40 years ago.

It was a privilege to be able to see them at work and it was so busy as usual.

The owner of this shop told me that these photos were from the sixties magazine “Queen”, later to become Harpers and Queen.

A street artist was painting a wall in Bacon street

and then a bright orange neon fronted shop caught my eye.

It was a lovely shop selling all sorts of interesting stuff and there were 4 shop cats in there ! This one just sat looking in the mirror the whole time.

The ceiling is hundreds of plastic milk cartons upside down with light bulbs inside.

This is their card.

I love these little bollard lights they sell.

Cat on the counter.

We started walking back to the station after a lovely warm day in London,

I was very restrained that day and didn’t buy anything much but Jane bought some lovely vintage fabric.

I love this little flower stall on the front of the apron.

A lot of the area in Spitalfields has been modernized and I love the trees. I’m not sure if they’re the original trees or whether new mature ones have been planted.

The buses were on diversion when I arrived back from town so I walked home which I never do, and spotted this lilac.

I love this old police lamp outside our partially closed old police station which I think is now run by volunteers.

This is the local pub. It’s massive and is now a gastropub  with fantastic food and a huge outside area covered with fairy lights. It’s run by George who pretends it’s a ship and he’s the captain. He’s very funny on twitter. This pub is famous because it’s where the kinks used to come and write their songs when it was a bit of a dive years ago. I saw Ray Davies in Highgate the other day.

This is a lovely tea room and shop round the corner to me.

Edwardian tiles outside the butchers.

There is a house round the corner called “Fairport”. The band Fairport Convention used to rehearse there and they named their band  after the house.

That was a long blog post !!