The latest in the series in which we ask you to identify where in London this picture was taken and what it’s of. If you think you can identify this picture, leave a comment below. We’ll reveal the answer early next week. Good luck!
This is an image of the metre wide zodiacal clock on Bracken House on Friday Street. The clock was designed by Frank Dobson and Philip Bentham and, alongside the classical influences on its face, curiously features the image of Winston Churchill’s face at its centre. Churchill was apparently a friend of Bernard Bracken, the former chairman of the Financial Times, after whom the building, which dates from the 1950s, was named. The Financial Times newspaper was published here until the 1989 when it moved to Number One Southwark Bridge. Meanwhile, Bracken House, which was one of the first post-war buildings in the city to be listed, was redeveloped in the early Nineties but retained its original facade.
