EDITORIAL

by Peter Jukes & Hardeep Matharu

Seeing the Light

It seems quintessentially English. Though most of our subscribers are not London-based, and we have a readership from across the world, Southwark Cathedral is in effect the parish church for the area in which Byline Times’ office is located.

As a tourist attraction, sitting right next to the 1,000-year-old Borough Market, the old priory – which turned into a church, and then a cathedral last century – is steeped in English history.

The Medieval poet John Gower is entombed in a colourful memorial here, and his contemporary Geoffrey Chaucer set the opening to his Canterbury Tales at the Tabard Inn just around the corner.

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