Today, as part of my architecture course, I visited Leadenhall Market in the City of London. I had come here before but it was obviously chosen as a place to visit on my course for its almost unique Victorian character. It truly is a wonderful place to stand in, especially during the working week where the City bankers still get their shoes 'shined' by hand under the market's cover.

The layout of the current market has actually been here since the 14th Century - very impressive - but did you know that it also stands directly on top of the original Roman Forum? Thus trading here has been going on for 2 millennia and so I can see no place more fitting than for this area to host the modern trading floors of 21st Century markets. The market recently posed as the backdrop to the Diagon Alley area for the first of the Harry Potter films.