| Code | DS/UK/92 |
| Corporate Name | Bank of England Law Courts Branch |
| Dates | 1881 - 1975 |
| Activity | This branch was primarily concerned with the business of the Courts of Justice and was opened following suggestions by the Lord Chancellor, and the various legal societies. From 1881 until 1888, when the branch moved to the building at the corner of Bell Yard and Fleet Street, business was carried out in rooms in the Royal Courts of Justice which were set aside for the purpose. It stopped trading on 12 December 1975, when it was sold to a building society. In 1994, it was taken over by a brewers. It remains a public house to this day called 'The Old Bank of England'. |
| Source | Sir John Clapham, The Bank of England: A History 1797-1914 Volume II, (Cambridge, 1944) p.353.; W. Marston Acres, The Bank of England from Within 1694-1900 Volume II, (Oxford, 1931) p.544 |
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