08/03/26: This is a large square in the City of London financial district. Confusingly to some, it is called Finsbury Circus, which implies a circle, but there you go – at least the central gardens are circular. My working life began here when I underwent commercial experience at a stockbroking firm in this square. Within a year of that placement, I took my first full-time job at a bank less than five hundred meters from this spot. That was in December 1981, almost two millennia after the Romans established Londinium as a center of trade and administration in AD 47. The face of The City has changed since I first became a tiny part of it; the extraordinary surge of major building projects which began in the 1980s is mostly complete now, but I doubt things will ever stop evolving here, not really. The City of London has always been a special place for me, and despite many years away and much of it now being unrecognisable I love it still.
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