| Description | Includes articles and updates on the following subjects: Library and Literary Association; the Bank Museum and establishment of a committee; the Reverend H E McLeod, who left the Bank to take Holy Orders; a drawing by Mr A J F Bond in the Royal Academy Exhibition; details on the last Rector of St Christopher le Stocks, Reverend Sherlock Willis; new binding facility offered to staff for The Old Lady magazine; decorative page sending best wishes to the Royal Family to mark the coronation of George VI as King of the United Kingdom; Paper Money' an article on aspects of the collection of paper money of all countries presented to the Bank by Sir Henry Strakosch GBE; and article titled 'Daily Life in the Sveriges Riksbank' by G Ahlin.
Obituaries:
E W Jeffery; Maurice Oxenbould; C H Goodman; E C Y St V Nepean, MC; E A Garnett; Miss I L Clarkson; Henry Palmer; W G H Wright; Walter Jeffery; C J Williams; A J Murray; V C Palin.
Updates on the branches including for Newcastle; Leeds; Plymouth; Liverpool; Bristol; Manchester; Birmingham; Law Courts with details on their Branch Dinner; and Hull.
Updates on the Bank's Clubs and Societies includes table tenis club; Musical Society including concert at Queen's Hall; Operatic, Dramatic and Orchestral Society, including photographs of their performances of 'Tell Me Little Girl' and 'Miss 1937'; Debating Society; City of London Special Constabulary; Staff Medical Benefit Fund; Arts Society, including photographs of The Arts Society Exhibition; Rifle Club; Bank Clerks' Orphanage; Film Society; a lecture on the re-building of the Bank; and Horticultural Society.
Update from the Bank of England Sports Club includes squash; details of the annual football match of the Dividend Office and Concert; rugby football association; hockey; badminton, golf; details of the annual football match of the Consols Office and concert; lawn tennis; association football; and athletics.
Update from the Bank of England Women's Sports Club includes details on the new club house; hockey; lawn tennis; netball; athletics; and swimming.
Photographs:
the exterior of the Bank decorated and fully lit as it was on 12 May 1937; Staff in the Drawing Office which also shows the interior of the office and furniture
Magazine also includes sports photographs with staff names of the following: rugby 'A' XV, 'B' XV, 'C' XV; and extra 'C' XV; 1st hockey men's XI; badminton men's 1st team; the Annual Sports meeting (still images from the Film Society's film 'Bank Shots, 1937); 1st hockey women's XI; 1st netball women's VII
Retirements:
Miss E M Baxter; A P Bubb; B T K Smith; Miss P E F Bowden; Miss G V Mackay; Miss G M Pearson; Miss Olive Kingston; Miss W G P Donovan; Miss G D Pickard; Miss M E Rendell; Miss M A Steele; Miss R M Yockney; Miss E W Riley; Miss E M Tabor; Miss M L Higgins; Miss O W Javes; Miss F V Burgess; Miss J L Muir; Miss M G Phipps; Miss Catherine Reilly; Miss A M Videan; S E Southerden; Miss Drusilla Poole; Miss Joan Butcher; Miss M E Donges; Miss N S Hurst; Miss J L Sames; Miss M P Jones; Miss E A R Macnamara; Miss M C Moorhouse; Miss Mabel High; Miss R B Stratford; Miss J A Cave; Miss J V Hutt; Miss K M Longes; Miss D A Lovell; Miss Mary Sayle; Miss E D Hockey; Miss J F Tessier. Also includes an article on 'Treasury Retirements' as in 1937 there were 9 - 10 changes in its staff.
Photographs:
M T D Wyatt (Honorary Treasurer of the Sports Club, Joint Honorary Secretary of the Cricket Section, Captain of the 'A' XV, Rugby Football Section)
Staff in the Drawing Office which also shows the interior of the office and furniture (J Stordy; L A Gash; C V Franks; E V M Stockdale; F G O'Connell; J D M Buchanan; G Rowe; J R R W Norbury; J M Richardson; J H N Sands; J H McNulty; J E Smart; S T A Bumpus; P M Hay; F C Storr; Gregory Smith; E B L Forrest; F A Clarke; G Rowe; L B Hawkins; D A Varley; F C Parkes; B H Cunningham; Miss S Rann; H S Peyton; E B Smyth; E A Collingwood; H B Cooley; Miss E Blandford; Miss A E M Symes; Miss A C C Prosser; Miss G M Hobbs; Miss M Fisher; Miss G Price; Miss K E Broughton; Miss B M Sayers; S A Nicholls; J Macey; W G Daniel; J Heard; J D Scott; I H Griffiths; E J Sutton; Miss D Wigglesworth; E J Sutton; E M Kelly; Miss P Bartlett; Miss L E Waite; Miss B Hurcombe; Miss D Griffith; Miss A Garland; K L Leeds; F F P Hatley; J W A Burt; A E G Payton; Miss J M Osborne; H C Fowler; T C Jones; H C Clarke; G D Dixon)
Team photograph of rugby football 1st XV for 1936-7: R H Osborne; J F Prince; N A Hudson (Hon. Secretary); G R Taylor; R J Dale; R C McCann; R E Heasman; A R Millard; R C H Hallett; G G Evans; E J L Poole; R H Hope; R A Finnis; H L Chadder; J E Taylor; E A Mould; V C R St Lawrence
Team photograph of rugby football 'A' XV for 1936-7: A E Cavalier; J F Lonsdale; A G Wood; B H Thomas; G B Potter; P R Cavalier; V C R St Lawrence; C R Watson; R J Dale; R C Stevenson; P A C Page; M T D Wyatt; J W Perts; R W Filmer; D E B Harris; E A Mould;
Team photograph of rugby football 'B' XV for 1936-7: H C Yeatman; J Q Hollom; G P Lambie; W A G Solbe; J F Lonsdale; C H Sainsbury; R F A Sharp; G W Fitchew; S G H Blackler; J W Starkey; E Duggleby; A H Edwards; L J Menzies; W K Sankey; D W B Jones; B C Snell
Team photograph of rugby football 'C' XV for 1936-7: J R Coke-Smyth; J H L Phillips; J F V Cutting; R D Gilbert; R C Balfour; A K Arnold; T T Macadam; A N Gibson; C W Hill; J P Hewetson; J W Cormack; J J Edmonds; M J Eedie; A B Loveridge
Team photograph of rugby football extra 'C' XV for 1936-7: G I Kitcat; A N Other; H M Jarvis; P P Jones; G W How; M L Doran; A N Other; N W Routledge; A R Cunningham; J H L Phillips; C C Stewart; W V K Channon; H Cooke-Yarborough; C S de C Prideaux; G M McCorqudale
Team photograph of 1st Hockey XI for 1936-7: W M Keall; R F A Dean; R E S Wass; D G Image; R C Shawyer; J S H Lloyd; F C Mason; T F Cannon; L R Dixon; J Kendall; E B Lee
Team photograph of badminton 1st team, winners of United Banks Cup, 1936-7: M D Swanson; F G Taylor; A J Fairclough; N R Brigg; S G Barker; G W Cornwell
Four photographs of the Annual Sports Meeting including Miss Stretton; Lady Harvey; Sir Ernest Harvey, Mr Holland-Martin; Mr Hugh Wheeler; and Mr Belsham
Team photograph of women's 1st hockey XI for 1936-7: M J Measures; I A B Gerrard; M E Baker; J B Attlee; M H J Broom; M I Chaplin; S Bagley; B T Franklin; A E Smith; N A Chivers; P Mumford
Team photograph of women's 1st netball VII for 1936-7: C D Landon; P Dudbridge; B O Beale; K M Barfield; D M Hayward; J R Carter; F Jex. |