On the day that England’s second lockdown was lifted, the City’s pubs, restaurants and retailers were met with youngsters on roller skates, BMX bikes and skateboards grinding down the sides of fountains instead of the trade and customers they desperately hoped for.

The mix of 300-year-old stairs, thick ledges and concrete curbs make for a testing obstacle course – except it’s not the Southbank’s underground skatepark but rather the grounds of St Paul's Cathedral, now dubbed London’s “second Mecca” for skateboarding.