When Prince George opened the Bank yesterday it did not contain a single paper relating to its huge transactions; but everything was there this morning, in readiness for being neatly pigeon-holed in its own place.
The midnight ‘flit’ from the old premises in Edmund-street was carried out by a small army of over 100 male bank workers, drawn from all the Municipal banks in the city, working under the protection of the police.
Hundreds of brown-paper parcels and boxes containing the title deeds of thousands of houses which are being purchased through the bank; many hundredweights of records; and stacks of ledgers were loaded into lorries and driven across to the new strong-room.