| Description | Illustration: Gillray's Cartoon of the "Old Lady", 1797; Manchester Branch Staff (photograph) and article on Centenary Dinner and Dance.
Includes articles relating to: James Sewell; origins of the name 'Old Lady of Threadneedle Street'; Charles Dickens and the Bank; literary references to the Bank; account (continued) by C B Jarrett of wartime naval service in East Africa.
Retirements: (article) Mr F W Freeman, retired 11 Feb 1927 (Chairman of the Library Committee); Reginald Percy Newham (Chief Clerk, Branch Banks Office), Bank service 15 Dec 1881 - 16 Nov 1926; Edmund Botterell Gillett (Cashier), Bank service 15 Dec 1881 - 19 Nov 1926; Ethel Everard Taylor (Assistant to the Superintendent of Women Clerks), Bank service 18 Jun 1896 - 25 Nov 1926; William Delane Windsor Berry (Cashier), Bank service 15 Dec 1881 - 4 Dec 1926; John Ernest Hayne (Senior Clerk in the Dividend Office), Bank service 15 Nov 1888 - 28 Feb 1927; James Ross (Principal of the Issue Office), Bank service 13 Dec 1883 - 28 Feb 1927.
Obituaries: Owen E Williams (Pensioner, formerly Principal of the Colonial Office), service 23 Mar 1876 - 25 Nov 1919, died 24 Nov 1926. |