Bank Junction and Royal Exchange
More information
Title
Bank Junction and Royal Exchange
Bank Junction and Royal Exchange
Reference
SC_PHL_01_025_57_4150 / C/266 (Collage 49591)
Date
Collection
London Metropolitan Archives: LCC Photograph Library
Description
A busy street scene taken from the steps of Mansion House looking eastwards across Bank Junction towards Threadneedle Street and the Royal Exchange building, City of London. The Royal Exchange was Grade I listed in 1950; listing number 1064713. Double-decker buses, cars, commercial vehicles and pedestrians can be seen and a policeman directs traffic. Vehicles include a number 15 Routemaster bus with an advert for Crawfords Cream Crackers on the side and a Benskins Brewery open-backed truck with tarpaulin. The Royal Exchange had been reconstructed in the 1840s creating an open plaza at its front. The south façade of the Bank of England is fully visible on the left of the photograph. The Bank of England has occupied this site since 1734. Famously extended and remodelled in Neo-Classical style by Sir John Soane in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries it reached its existing extent of the 3.5 acres bounded by Threadneedle Street, Prince's Street, Lothbury and Bartholomew Lane in 1828 when it was enclosed with the windowless outer wall which is visible in this photograph. This is the only remaining part of Sir John Soane's design; the full interior of the building was demolished and rebuilt in the 1920s to a design by Sir Herbert Baker, reaching its current height of seven storeys which can also be seen in this photograph. The Bank was Grade I listed in 1950; listing number 1079134. The striped stonework on the corner of One Cornhill can be seen on the right, which was built for the Liverpool & London and Globe Insurance Company to a design by John Macvicar Anderson in 1905. It was Grade II listed in 1972; listing number 1286711.
A busy street scene taken from the steps of Mansion House looking eastwards across Bank Junction towards Threadneedle Street and the Royal Exchange building, City of London. The Royal Exchange was Grade I listed in 1950; listing number 1064713. Double-decker buses, cars, commercial vehicles and pedestrians can be seen and a policeman directs traffic. Vehicles include a number 15 Routemaster bus with an advert for Crawfords Cream Crackers on the side and a Benskins Brewery open-backed truck with tarpaulin. The Royal Exchange had been reconstructed in the 1840s creating an open plaza at its front. The south façade of the Bank of England is fully visible on the left of the photograph. The Bank of England has occupied this site since 1734. Famously extended and remodelled in Neo-Classical style by Sir John Soane in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries it reached its existing extent of the 3.5 acres bounded by Threadneedle Street, Prince's Street, Lothbury and Bartholomew Lane in 1828 when it was enclosed with the windowless outer wall which is visible in this photograph. This is the only remaining part of Sir John Soane's design; the full interior of the building was demolished and rebuilt in the 1920s to a design by Sir Herbert Baker, reaching its current height of seven storeys which can also be seen in this photograph. The Bank was Grade I listed in 1950; listing number 1079134. The striped stonework on the corner of One Cornhill can be seen on the right, which was built for the Liverpool & London and Globe Insurance Company to a design by John Macvicar Anderson in 1905. It was Grade II listed in 1972; listing number 1286711.
<a href="view-item?i=51939" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">View this item on the London Picture Archive for further options including print and digital sales.</a>
View this item on the London Picture Archive for further options including print and digital sales.
License
Copyright London Metropolitan Archives, all rights reserved. Provided for research purposes only. For commercial and other uses please contact us via
support@londonpicturearchive.org.uk
Attribution
London Metropolitan Archives. Please cite document title, reference and collection.