Undercover work
MY pioneer work on the City's•undercover geography has been enriched by Keith Cordwell of Lowndes Lambert, who tells me of a wet-weather route from Tower Hill station to Lloyd's via Australia. March into Willis Faber's noble office in Trinity Square, sneak out through the back door into Seething Lane, cut through the Mus- lim Commercial Bank into Mark Lane, thence through Colonial House to Mincing Lane and the trackless corridors of Planta- tion House (offering scope for coffee and the Melbourne test match, visible on the demonstration set in the shop window). Refreshed, out into Fenchurch Street, via Fountain House to Fen Court and the back door of 40 Lime Street, whose front door faces Lloyd's. Brian Basham of Broad Street Group recalls a route discovered by Tony Falshaw, the much-missed market sleuth of the Daily Mail, which led from Throgmorton Street via bridges, base- ments and a hydraulic lift into Rowe Rudd's red-doored rabbit-warren at 65 London Wall and thence straight into Coates's Bar. Greedy redevelopment and officious security now leave us all to get wet on the outside, so I offer champagne to my informants in order to redress the balance.
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