| Description | Fabric bound album with several small prints per page and some unused pages. The prints have been individually numbered by the Archive.
The first page has a note pasted in: 'The views of the rebuilding are arranged in groups for the better comparison of the progress on a particular site and they read from left to right across both pages of the opened book. HFM'.
1 to 81): Exterior views showing the rebuilding of the Bank. Dated September 1933 to April 1936.
82 - 86) Flags and floodlighting of the Threadneedle Street facade for George V's Jubilee May 1935. Includes an image of the Royal Exchange.
87 - 89) 'Proclamation of the Accession to the Throne of Edward VIII, Royal Exchange January 1936'.
90 - 111) Interiors of the new bank labelled: 'Entrance to the Oak Room', 'Interior of the Oak Room', '1st Floor', '3rd Floor', 'Ante room leading out of the Oak Room', '1st Floor Cloisters'.
112 - 113) Cityscapes labelled 'Merseyside' and 'Runcorn'.
114) 'RC Stevenson Principal BBO [Branch Banks Office] ('Mossy' Stevenson)'.
115) 'Goodall [Assistant] Principal BBO 3rd floor Bank Buildings'.
116) 'William Holdstock [Deputy] Principal BBO' and 'William Well-beloved'.
117) Unlabelled picture showing a crowd or ceremony outside the Royal Exchange.
118) Unlabelled print showing the path through Tivoli Corner. |