One of the pleasures of today was walking past the Geffrye Museum and seeing how the crisp November sun lit up the space in front of the early eighteenth-century almshouses.   They were built out of a bequest from Sir Robert Geffrye, a big wheel in the Ironmonger’s Company, Lord Mayor in 1674 and died in 1703, leaving the residue of his estate to be used to construct fourteen almshouses, with a chapel in the middle and a statue commemorating the founder: