Another so soon? It’d been such a miserably overcast October that any hint of Sun was a joy, and I was out anyway this day, a long walk west to St James’ Park to wander around with my mum and drink wine and gawp at pelicans. I’d timed the lockdown-permitted meeting to be here at midday, of course. I actually managed to get a decent shot of the alignment here, not that you can tell from the photos. It was from a little further north than three days’ earlier, on a traffic island in the middle of Gracechurch Street. As the clock turned midday my view was blocked by a bus:
But happily it had passed before 12:01.
I’d never heard of this road before. Apparently the “Grace” doesn’t refer to anything ecclesiastical, instead being a corruption of “grass”, due to the nearby hay market in the Middle Ages. The “Church” refers to the old St Benet Gracechurch, which was unsurprisingly destroyed in the Great Fire, rebuilt and then demolished again in 1868. Apparently the road is mentioned in both ‘Pride and Prejudice’ and ‘Great Expectations’, but I’d not read either (I know).
Shard Analemma 