St Paul’s Walk Until the Great Fire
Until the mid seventeenth century, writes L.W. Cowie, the nave of old St Paul’s Cathedral was an active centre of commerce.
In England the seat of government and the chief commercial town were not combined in a single city, as in other countries, but came to lie in separate places along the Thames.
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