Erection date: 1936
{Around the Westminster Bank shield:}
1836 1936
This stone was placed here to commemorate the centenary of Westminster Bank.
All the sources we have checked give 1834 as the year of origin.
EC2, Lothbury, 41
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Westminster Bank
Founded as the London and Westminster Bank, it was the first firm founded und...
Joaquim Nabuco, 1849-1910, eminent Brazilian statesman and diplomat, lived here, 1900-1905.
PC Alfred Smith, 1880 - 1917, was killed at this site saving factory workers during a WW1 air raid, 13 June 1917. London Borough of Islin...
Unveiled by Sybil Phoenix, a community leader who had been called to the scene the morning after the fire.
When we published this in January 2012 we asked for help in naming the sculptor. Mick has kindly contacted us himself, and October 2012,...
Lansbury's house was destroyed by bombs only a few months after he died. We're sure Tower Hamlets had a good reason for creating a new pl...
