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Reference Number (click to see whole series/group)E8/9
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TitleTHE OLD LADY
DateMar 1923
DescriptionIllustrations: Photograph of Montagu Collet Norman, Governor of the Bank by Reginald Craigie; Photographs of Old coinage; 'St Margaret's, Lothbury' - external and internal plates
Includes: article relating: Token money of the Bank of England; An Architectural Evening - lecture including rebuilding of the Bank; article on Samuel Johnson; St Margaret's Church, Lothbury (illustrated); Gilbert (Sir W S Gilbert) on banking; correspondence on the origins of the name "the old lady of Threadneedle Street".
Resignations of: Leonard Fradgley and C T Paice (Deputy Chief Cashier).Presentation on 29 Nov 1922 to Arthur Watkin (Principal of the Private Drawing Office) on his retirment.
Obituaries: Albert George Sandeman (a Director of the Bank for 52 years) who died on 6 Jan 1923; Thomas Askwith (Deputy-Principal of the Public Drawing Office and subsequently Assistant Chief Cashier), who died on 26 Jan 1923; Richard Waygood Swatridge (Assistant Principal of the Drawing Office), who died on 29 Nov 1922; Frederick William Annoot (Private Drawing Office and Treasury Official), died on 18 Jan 1923; Augustus Mowbray Lott who died on 26 Jan 1923 (worked for the Bank from 1881 until his death in 1923); Henry Smith (ex-Chief Clerk at the Liverpool Branch), died on 27 Feb 1923.
KeywordRebuilding the Bank

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