| Description | 'The Parlours' are the rooms occupied by the Governors and Executive Directors and their immediate staff. The term includes the Court Room. Care of Parlours to rest with the Secretary initially, 1951; the Secretary also to serve on the Bank's Fine Arts Committee; the Court Room in need of improvement; advice from Lord Crawford and Sir Kenneth McKenzie Clark; Professor Albert Edward Richardson brought in; fireplace in Deputy Governor's room to be moved to Court Room, diary of events, Nov 1953; new fireplace acquired for Deputy Governor's room from a Palladian house near Nottingham; alterations to Court Room carried out. The second cut-up contains a few papers about the service accommodation for the old Parlours, and about an abortive attempt to move the Parlours to the third floor in the new Bank. The third cut-up has some papers about the rooms of the Directors and senior officials; and the fourth about the room reserved for Sir John Gordon Nairne. |