| Level | Item |
| Reference Number (click to see whole series/group) | E8/71 |
| Extent | 1 item |
| Title | THE OLD LADY |
| Date | Sep 1938 |
| Description | Articles and mentions include the donation of the oil painting ‘After the Rising of the Court’ by Mr Henry S. Kortright which represents the old Court Room; details of a Dividend Book exhibition held in the Oak Room; article by J A Giuseppi titled ‘A Bank Firefighter’ with details about member of staff Arthur William Charles Shean (entered the service of the Bank on the 18th November 1875); article titled ‘The Staff of the Swiss National Bank’ by Dr E Ackerman; article titled ‘Television’ by A W Alliston; an update on the Pensioners’ Day meeting held at the Club in Tokenhouse Yard.
Obituaries:
E B Gillett; F A Ridley; F B Withers; Miss Z D George; G P Jenkin; Mrs M A L Whiteside;
Update on Bank branches including Birmingham (and details on the Birmingham Pageant); Bristol; Hull (including the Hull Banks’ cricket team); Liverpool; Plymouth; and Leeds.
Updates on clubs and societies including about the Library and Literary Association; Bank Clerks’ Orphanage; Bank of England Staff (St. Christopher) Fund for Voluntary Hospitals; table tennis; debating society; British Red Cross Society; Arts Society; Fencing Club; Riding Club; details on the Bank’s ARP exercises (Air Raid Precaution); Stamp Circle; Film Society, including details on Professor Polanyi’s illustrated lecture; the C.A.C.O Annual Golf Match ‘Married v Single’, played at Ashford Manor on the 17th May 1938; Operatic and Dramatic Society; Horticultural Society including details on the Ninth Annual Flower Show, held at Carpenters’ Hall, Throgmorton Avenue; the Musical Society; Staff Medical Benefits Fund; Time and Talents Guild (City Centre); Rifle Club; City of London Special Constabulary; and Chess Club.
Update on the Bank of England Sports Club includes details on the Annual Garden Party; rugby football; golf; cricket (including the Sussex tour and Kent tour); lawn tennis; and athletics and results of Annual Athletic Meeting, 1938.
Update on the Bank of England Women’s Sports Club includes details on athletics; swimming; squash rackets; and badminton.
Photographs of Richard Powers; the Bullion Office; the Kent cricket tour; team photo of men’s hockey 1st XI and 2nd XI; Sports Day; the ladies table tennis team, who were Champions of the London Banks’ league (Ladies Division); the Kent Cricket Tour.
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| Keyword | Central Bank of Switzerland; Switzerland Central Bank; National Bank of Switzerland |
| Second World War; World War Two; WWII |
| fireman; firemen; fire fighter |
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