Broad Street Revisited - Part 3
Photographs taken on a visit to Broad Street, made on January 5th 2009,
by Gill & Mike Price
and Jeanette & David Parkes
The maker's name on the rear of a Muniment Room Strongroom Door
The cabinets formerly used to store the deeds held as security for Mortgage and other Secured Advances. The unusual handles allowed
the cabinet doors to be opened sideways to give access to the stored deeds
Muniment Room with strongroom door and
grille open
Jeanette Parkes, Mike and Gill Price in a room at the rear of the Banking Hall. The room was used as a Machine Room for much of the
building's life, but was later used by the Bank's Finance Department for various functions including the Foreign Till
View from the window of the room in the previous photograph - one of the building's Light Wells; this one is at the southwest corner
This room on the First Floor is at the northwest corner of the building. In the original design, it housed the Bank's Secretarial
- the door providing access to the General Manager's office.
The unusually shaped window is in a wall of a
corridor that gives access
to the four offices on the west side of the building:
Secretarial
General Manager
Deputy General Manager
Typists