Daniel Lewis & Son, Hackney Road, Cambridge Heath. This was London's oldest ironmonger, originally founded by Presland & Sons in 1797, purpose-built as a shop and factory. In the 1890s it became W H Clark Ltd. Daniel Lewis, who joined as a junior in 1948, took on the business in 1971 and continued trading under the Clark name. Daniel's son, David, worked there from 1992 and renamed it after his father in 2002. In 2012, he was forced to close when council regulations prevented customers parking and restricted deliveries. Since I painted it, the shopfront has been replaced by a new replica, which is a close copy of this Georgian original. Until the end, the original interior, with all its fittings and the manufacturing workshops at the rear, survived, revealing how the business evolved, supplying first the coach-building industry and then metal fabricators, architects and sculptors.