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Gresham Street
A site of stone and steel
of guilding and of glass



Gresham Street is on the site of four smaller streets: St Anne's Lane, Maiden Lane, Lad Lane and Cateaton Street. It is named for Sir Thomas Gresham who founded the Royal Exchange in 1566 and Gresham College in 1579.

City Journey

My journey takes me
from St Paul's
to Old Street
via London Bridge;
through the City
to where the City began;
London's downtown.

It is a Saturday,
the streets deserted,
and I write my passage
as I go.
From Bucklersbury
I cross Cheapside
and head north
up Ironmonger Lane.

Left and right
and right I go
and then I see
the ghost.