The entrancement of a child by the bright lights and other paraphernalia of a pantomime is a magical sight.

Eight chairs, two tents, tables, food and lamps were among the articles whose unpackable shapes were to provide us with many problems during the tour.

Finance is seldom romantic. But the idea of peer-to-peer lending comes close. This is an industry that brings together individual savers and lenders on online platforms. Those that want to borrow are matched with those that want to lend.

So much of what followed from the drawing boards of others will have been designed with the demands, effort and grandeur of Primrose Hill [tunnel] in the back of their minds.