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Reference Number (click to see whole series/group)E8/68
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TitleTHE OLD LADY
DateDec 1937
DescriptionArticles and mentions include details on lectures held by the Library and Literary Association; information on the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital - Nurses Hostel Fund; the 'Three Banks Art Show'; details of the death of Mr Robert Lydston Newman; details of 'Aladdin' to be performed by the Operatic and Dramatic Society; activities of the Film Society's first meeting; update on Pensioners' Day; article titled 'The Later Relics' by J A Giuseppi about objects unearthed during the rebuilding of the Bank; article titled 'The staff of the National Bank of Czechoslovakia'.

Obituaries: Mrs E L Mascord; T F Chessman; E P Mullins

Updates on branches including Liverpool, Hull, Birmingham, Newcastle, Plymouth, Bristol, Leeds, Manchester.

Updates on Bank Clubs and Societies includes Bank of England Staff (St Christopher) Fund for Voluntary Hospitals; Operatic and Dramatic Society; Staff Medical Benefit Fund; City of London Special Constabulary; Horticultural Society; Chess Club; British Red Cross Society; Arts Society; the 'Three Banks Art Exhibition' (including images); Rifle Club (including photographs of the Inter-Banks' shoot at Bisley - 'won by the Bank R C for the Fifth Year in Succession'; Debating Society; Musical Society; Fencing; Bank Clerks' Orphanage; table tennis; the Prayer Fellowship; update on the Dividend Office; Time and Talents Guild (City Centre); Film Society; details of staff attendance at an instruction course at the Civilian Anti-Gas School following nomination by the City of London Branch of the British Red Cross Society, including mention of air raid precaution training, and the decontamination scheme.

Update on Bank of England Sports Club includes details on hockey; badminton; rugby football; lawn tennis including information on the United Banks Tournament, and a team photograph of the tennis team on a visit to Overbury; squash rackets; athletics; association football; cricket, including team photograph of first XI, 1937;

Update on Bank of England Women's Sports Club including lawn tennis; swimming; badminton; squash rackets; netball; and hockey.

Photographs of Mr J H McNulty reciting to the Dickens Fellowship, with the Rt Hon Lord Hewart, the Lord Chief Justice also present; staff in the Dividend Office (named); C Neville Brand.
KeywordSecond World War; World War Two; WWII
Czech Republic; Slovakia

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