| Description | Premises before 1896; liability of the Bank for tithe rates and taxes; 'supplemental' charter 19 Aug 1896; Maberley Phillips' lecture, Jan 1920; W Marston Acres's contribution to an encyclopaedia, and his 'Bank of England from Within'; history of the Court Rooms; links with St.Margaret's Lothbury; brief for 250th anniversary in 1944; Darby's lecture 1950; history of Bristol and Newcastle Branches (Deane's notes on Bristol not in file); etymology of Threadneedle Street; 'An Architectural History of the Bank of England' by H. Rooksby Steel which contains drawings, prints and photographs of past Bank of England buildings including Front Courtyard, Garden Court, the Court Room, Bank Stock Office, Soanes Rotunda, and the Lothbury Courtyard (reprinted from the journal of the Royal Institute of British Architects, 1926). |