A lunchtime look down from the gallery of The Counting House, the Cornhill pub under the glass dome of a Victorian banking hall.

The riverside pub by the Old Royal Naval College where Victorian ministers ate whitebait and Dickens set a wedding dinner, and where I ate by the big Thames windows.

A 1,687-seat Egyptian Art Deco cinema that opened in February 1929, took bingo in 1978, poured pints from 2001 and closed in October 2023 — and what is still inside.