Bryant & May And The Secret Santa (2015) - Plot & Excerpts
After eight hundred years it’s still the home of the City of London Corporation, the powerhouse at the heart of the world’s leading financial centre. ‘I search the room and see a great many youthful faces. At my age, everyone is youthful. Some of you look positively prepubescent. So, as the most senior detective at London’s Peculiar Crimes Unit, may I be indulged for a moment and give you a brief history lesson about the city you’ve been entrusted to look after? ‘In Tudor times London was still a box. It was tightly contained by walls on three sides, the fourth being the river Thames. This walled city was stitched into the pattern of its ancient Roman boundaries and could be entered by only seven gates. London’s main road was Cheapside, which ran out to the Shambles in the west and Cornhill in the east. ‘It was a city bristling with church spires, the greatest of which was St Paul’s, which collapsed after being struck by lightning in 1561. It had two royal palaces, Baynard and Bridewell, built for Henry the Eighth.
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