Thurs, 10 March 2016, 11:55 am: You’ve got to walk quite a distance from it before the Walkie Talkie (nickname of the skyscraper at 20 Fenchurch Street) stops dominating your entire view of this section of London.
Walk with me now from the Sky Gardens’ building through part of the business district of London. (Business happens everywhere, of course, but this blog post features photos from The City, the official business zone, if it’s appropriate to call it that.)
Here’s another of London’s “we love ’em so much, we give ’em all silly nicknames” new skyscrapers: the “Cheese Grater” (subject of a 2017 Matt blog). 
I bet if you staked out this red postal box all afternoon you wouldn’t see a soul drop anything in its slot, but there’s a certain satisfaction in seeing relics from the recent past still peppering the modern cityscape.
Strolling west on Lombard Street we pass two of London’s oldest churches, each famous among locals but unmentioned in American guidebooks. (See? Stick with me and I’ll take you off the well-trodden tourist path.)
First of the two is called St. Mary Woolnoth.
Here is the church known as St. Edmund, King and Martyr, distinguishable thanks to the likeness of the revered monarch, rendered in gold, hanging over the street.
Many of the banks on this street were recognizable by the unique signs mounted to their facades. This cat-with-a-fiddle logo still hangs, but not in its original 1902 location.
