Risk capital: Helen Johnson’s Thought for the week

‘Like life, skateboarding isn’t for the timid.’

by Helen Johnson 9th June 2023

The building on the corner is recognisably a church. It’s not too fancy, or architecturally distinguished, but a blue plaque tells its story as a place of worship for the soldiers that once barracked on the top of the hill. When a visitor ventures inside, however, things become really interesting. The religious furniture – the rows of pews, the altar, the organ, the pulpit – has gone. So have the hymn books and large Bible. There’s no symbolic art. But what is there is a jaw-dropping surprise.