| Description | Illustrations include: 'Battersea Reach with Lots Road Power Station' (sketch by A J F Bond); 'Interior View of the Bank' - sketch of the Lothbury Court with description; 'Midas Transmuting All into Paper' (cartoon by James Gilray); House Personalities, No 3, Mr H B C Yeomans (sketch by Laurence Attridge); 'The Bank Clerk who asked for his Pass Book on the First Day of the Month' (cartoon); caricatures of C B Jarrett and G R Gough (by H S Clarke); photographs of The Garden Party - 20 July 1929; Photograph of 'The Bank v The Governor's XII' cricket teams July 1929.
Includes: 'A Rebuilding Symphony' - verse on rebuilding the Bank; Bank Clerks' Orphanage appeal; Literary reference to the Bank in "Seen in Passing" by Francis Gribble; the first governor of the Bank; continuation of accounts of 'Bank Life a Century Ago' from the diary of Samuel Harrison; what lies beneath the Bank; the Bank Clerks' Orphanage; correspondence re St Christopher Fund.
Retirement articles: Mr. W. M. Rowe (Deputy Chief Accountant - entered Service 18 June 1885, pensioned 19 Jun 1929); Miss K. M. Rumsey (Superintendent of Women Clerks - entered Service 18 Jun 1901, pensioned 18 July 1929).
Other retirements and resignations: Arthur Chandler (Principal, Dividend Preparation Office - entered Service 19 Apr 1888, pensioned 25 Jul 1929); C E Tavener (Deputy Principal, Securities Office - entered Service 17 Nov 1904, quitted 20 Jun 1920); A H Dyer (a Cashier - entered Service 9 Jun 1887, pensioned 10 Jun 1929); William Challis (Superintendent, Dividend Accounts Office - entered Service 28 Jun 1888, pensioned 1 Jul 1929); H S Chapman (Superintendent, 5% War Stock Office - entered Service 28 Feb 1899, pensioned 1 Sep 1929); C R Covey (Superintendent, Bill Office - entered Service 15 Nov 1888, pensioned 6 Aug 1929); E D Ferrier Rowe (1st Class Clerk - entered Service 6 May 1897, pensioned 9 Aug 1929); Miss M A Hill (Assistant to Superintendent of Women Clerks - entered Service 19 Apr 1899, pensioned 19 Jun 1929); Miss F E Taylor (Women Clerk - entered Service 20 Jan 1900, pensioned 28 May 1929).
Obituaries: H A N Smith (Pensioner, formerly Agent at Birmingham Branch - entered Service 18 Feb 1886, pensioned 10 Apr 1919, died 20 May 1929); R.M. Hooper (Assistant, attached to the Cashier's Dept - entered Service 3 Dec 1924, died 3 Jun 1929); Cecil Pegram (Auxiliary Clerk - entered Service 23 Jun 1919, died 19 Jul 1929). |