Thurs, 10 March 2016, 12:04 pm: Here we are at the Royal Exchange. The original activities on this site in the 1500s made it London’s very first official center of commerce.
We’ve walked ten minutes west from the Walkie Talkie and are now within teabag-tossing distance of St. Paul’s Cathedral.
the top of the building with its Latin script and the “Cheese Grater” (at right) in the background
The red double decker buses run on what seems an endless loop where Lombard, Threadneedle, and Cornhill Streets meet.
The Duke of Wellington rides bareback in front of the Royal Exchange.
The Royal Exchange was founded in the thirteenth year of Queen Elizabeth and rehabilitated in the seventh year of Queen Victoria, proclaim the Latin words above the columns.