An astrological clock with Winston Churchill’s face in it
Around the corner from St Paul’s Cathedral is an office building with an astrological clock above the front door – and Winston Churchill’s face in the middle.
This is Bracken House, built for the Financial Times after it merged with the Financial News in 1945, and is named after Brendan Bracken, the Tory businessman who founded the modern Financial Times. The newspaper occupied the building until the 1980s, but moved back in 2019.
Apart from the building’s deliberate choi
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