| Description | Includes articles relating to: Roman relics unearthed during the rebuilding of the Bank (with photographs); Ernest Pratt (former member of staff); recollections by Mrs W L Courtney who, as Miss Janet Hogarth was the first Superintendent of Women Clerks at the Bank; branch notes include updates on Bristol, Plymouth, Leeds, Liverpool, Hull, Birmingham; Manchester and Newcastle. Also includes details of the deed of conveyance, 19 October 1936, transferring Tivoli Corner from the Bank to the City Corporation (with photographs) which allowed the corner to be opened up to pedestrians following work to widen Princes Street; update on British Red Cross Society (City of London branch)
Clubs and Societies update includes details on The Film Society show; Arts Society; Staff Medical Benefit Fund; Operatic, Dramatic and Orchestral Society; Musical Society; Film Society; Bank Clerks' Orphanage; Debating Society; Annual Dinner held at the Club, Tokenhouse Yard; Fencing; Rifle Club (including photographs of winning the Inter-Banks competition at Bisley); Chess Club; Horticultural Society; Bank of England staff (St. Christopher) Fund for Voluntary Hospitals.
Bank of England Sports Club update includes tennis; golf; badminton; hockey; association football; rugby; squash; athletics; cricket (includign photograph of XI).
Bank of England Women's Sports Club update includes tennis; netball; hockey; and swimming.
Obituaries:
Mr William John Strong; G H D Duncan; A V Smith; A P Aubusson; B H James; T E Boscawen; Henry Hawkes; E P Hill; George Mackenzie; Arthur Watkin, C T Hallett, C A MacBean; Eric Percy Hill; Arthur Watkin.
Retirements of Miss C C O'Donnell; R B Johnston; William Tilden; R S Williams; Miss M A Gradley; Miss B M Tucker; Miss M M Clarke; Miss J M Hayes; Miss C P Ross; Miss M M Taylor; Miss F M Hume; C E E Riley; P G Forman; Miss V M Svensson; W F S Hatte; Miss I M Holderness; Miss L H Rayner; Miss J M Bateman; Miss E S Harcourt; Miss M N S Gillett; A H Irby; Miss H M Grutchfield; Miss E J Eames; Miss M T Ritchie; Miss L D Gardner; Miss A T Smith; Miss N C Gale; C A Macbean; Miss V A Metcalfe; Reginald Sidney Williams (including photograph); Percy Gardiner Forman; and Walter Joseph Smith.
Appointments:
J C V Polgreen; J L Guy; D A Harris; Donald Mackay; H S Shelson; W H Knight; Reginald Papworth; L T Brook; A C Hills; E W Geipel; G S Foulkes; B F Roycroft; M C G Lambert; A J Lambert; Dorothy Sawyer; M L Higgins; H G Hooper; H M Warden; F J Dugdale.
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