| Description | Includes Illustrations of: 'Kew' - sketch by A J F Bond; 'Mr C P Mahon' (photo); 'The Late Rt. Hon. Lord Revelstoke, G.C.V.O.' (photo with article); 'South Front of the Bank of England' (1800, with description); 'An Unusual Signpost - the Statue of St. Christopher at Old Treyford' (photo with description); photographs on The Progress of Re-Building the Bank, taken April 1929; photographs of the Rugby Football team and the Men and Ladies Hockey Teams 1928-1929.
Includes articles on: the Masonic Foundation Stone; Mr C P Mahon, new Comptroller; wearing hats in the Bank; note of Early Directors of the Bank; The Houblon Family and Sir John Houblon; Bank Life a Century Ago - extracts from the diary of Samuel Harrison; verse "The Smells" - adaption of "The Bells" by Edgar Allen Poe; Branch Notes; Report of the Sixth Annual Meeting of the Bank of England Staff (St Christopher) Fund, to decide future distribution of the subscriptions; Note on George Rowley Hill, a Pensioner, who became a Baronet on 13 May 1929; Branch Notes;
Obituary article: The Rt. Hon. Lord Revelstoke, G.C.V.O. (born 7 Sep 1863, died 19 April 1929).
Other obituaries: R G Winter (Pensioner, formerly a 1st-Class Clerk at the Liverpool Branch - entered Service 2 Dec 1880, pensioned 13 Sep 1923, died 11 Feb 1929); P J Berrow (Pensioner, formerly a 2nd-Class Clerk in the Private Drawing Office - entered Service 15 Oct 1914, pensioned 3 Mar 1928, died 21 Feb 1929); E G Brent (1st-Class Clerk, Public Drawing Office - entered Service 13 Nov 1890, died 27 Feb 1920); H R Pizey (Pensioner, formerly a 1st-Class Clerk in the Colonial Office - entered Service 28 Feb 1867, pensioned 12 Feb 1914, died 24 Feb 1929); A E Sims (Pensioner, formerly Chief Clerk at the Birmingham Branch - entered Service 2 Feb 1865, pensioned 23 Mar 1911, died 27 Feb 1929); A F Jacob (Pensioner, formerly a 1st-Class Clerk in the Power of Attorney Office - entered Service 18 Jun 1885, pensioned 30 Oct 1924, died 6 Mar 1929); W H V V Bradley (Pensioner, formerly a 1st-Class Clerk at the Newcastle Branch - entered Service 21 Jun 1877, pensioned 14 Nov 1912, died 3 May 1929); F de P Green (Pensioner, formerly a Cashier - entered Service 18 Jun 1885, pensioned 19 Aug 1926, died 4 May 1929).
Retirements: E H Everett-Heath (Agent, Manchester Branch - entered Service 14 Dec 1882, pensioned 1 May 1929); T P Swindells (a Cashier - entered Service 19 Jun 1884, pensioned 1 April 1929); Winifred Rennie (Woman Clerk - entered Service 16 Sep 1918, pensioned 26 Apr 1929). |