Jake Attwell’s colourful, contemporary take on the borough’s heritage secured more than half of the 170 votes cast.
The artist has vowed start work on the mural above McDonald’s on the corner of Short Blue Place and East Street, Barking in early May.
“I’m really looking forward to getting started. Feel free to come down and say hello to me and my team,” he said.
Jake says his design is an ode to the borough’s lost heritage, which is still valued by residents.
It includes an early twentieth century East Street complete with a tram, which he hopes to illuminate and animate when the mural is launched next September.
Other historic features include the Bascule Bridge, the Curfew Tower – the only remaining part of Barking Abbey – and the Wellington Windmill, which stood close to the London Road until 1926.
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