Grey Street at Night

Grey Street after rain in monochrome, the wet setts throwing long reflections down the empty sweep while the Theatre Royal's columns stand uplit against a near-black sky. A lone pedestrian gives the grandeur its scale.

Grey Street was laid out in the 1830s as the centrepiece of Richard Grainger's classical new town, its curving sweep of stone designed by architects including John Dobson. Regularly voted among the finest streets in Britain, it rises from the Quayside to Grey's Monument with the Theatre Royal at its head.