Plaque

Chartered Insurance Institute

Chartered Insurance Institute

Photograph by: London Remembers

Chartered Insurance Institute

Photograph by: London Remembers

Erection date: 28/6/1934

Inscription

This building was opened by His Majesty King George V accompanied by Her Majesty Queen Mary on the twenty eighth day of June MCMXXXIV the twenty fifth year of his majesty's reign.

Site: Chartered Insurance Institute (1 memorial)

EC2, Aldermanbury, 20

Built as a central, permanent, home for the Chartered Insurance Institute. The 2017 CII Journal announced "The Chartered Insurance Institute (CII) has agreed to the sale of 20/21 Aldermanbury to The City of London Corporation." 

The bronze plaques on the pillars relate to other companies in the building.

Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of plaquesoflondon.co.uk

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This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Chartered Insurance Institute

Subjects commemorated i

Chartered Insurance Institute

The first Insurance Institute was established in Manchester, with a particula...

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King George V

Reigned: 1910 - 1936.  Born third in line to the throne, after his father (wh...

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Queen Mary (consort)

Wife of George V, grandmother of Queen Elizabeth II. Born Princess Victoria M...

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