In my opinion

Twenty years ago, when I was doing the Billingsgate market conversion to a financial trading building, the faint aroma of 100 years of frozen prawns defrosting in the brick-vaulted basements still hung around as I took one of the Stateside chiefs of Citibank for a tour.

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