A brick built bank in the Victorian Gothic style

Trojan · Post by **Trojan** » Wed 23 Dec, 2009 10:23 am

LS1 wrote: Must be playing tricks Trojan, Marshall and Snelgrove was at the corner of Bond Street where Lloyds Bank is now. So what is the building with a tower shrouded in mist on your picture?

Post by **tyke bhoy** » Wed 23 Dec, 2009 10:36 am

It looks like a church at first but then I realised it couldn't be Mill Hill Chapel. According to Leodis that is the Priestly School which was attached, not physically, to the Chapel just down from Snelgroves then we have[img]http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?reso ... SPLAY=FULL[/img].Thanks to Leodis Mill Hill Chapel and the Royal Exchange Chambers which is the tower in the mistHave you missed the gothic looking, recently posted by LS1, Becketts Bank building not the Wetherspoons version which is in a different building/location?

uncle mick · Post by **uncle mick** » Wed 23 Dec, 2009 10:42 am

Trojan wrote: LS1 wrote: Must be playing tricks Trojan, Marshall and Snelgrove was at the corner of Bond Street where Lloyds Bank is now. So what is the building with a tower shrouded in mist on your picture? I would have thought the building in the mist was the Yorkshire Bank at the junction of Bishopgate Street and Boar Lane,now a pub

uncle mick · Post by **uncle mick** » Wed 23 Dec, 2009 10:47 am

http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?reso ... SPLAY=FULL

LS1 · Post by **LS1** » Wed 23 Dec, 2009 2:16 pm

tyke bhoy wrote: It looks like a church at first but then I realised it couldn't be Mill Hill Chapel. According to Leodis that is the Priestly School which was attached, not physically, to the Chapel just down from Snelgroves then we have[img]http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?reso ... SPLAY=FULL[/img].Thanks to Leodis Mill Hill Chapel and the Royal Exchange Chambers which is the tower in the mistHave you missed the gothic looking, recently posted by LS1, Becketts Bank building not the Wetherspoons version which is in a different building/location? This is looking at the NORTH and EAST side of Park Row. The building in the mist is the old St Annes Cathedral which is where Browns is now on the Headrow.

LS1 · Post by **LS1** » Wed 23 Dec, 2009 2:20 pm

It's this building here. The old Cathedral that was replaced by the one that is now on Cookridge Street

Post by **tyke bhoy** » Wed 23 Dec, 2009 2:41 pm

Are you sure?Agreed we are looking at the east side of Park Row. I hate to disagree with someone who may be old enough to remember it as I will have been not much more than a toddler when M&S went but given it is on the site of the current Lloyds bank it means Bond street is off to the left side of the photo and Park Row runs from the bottom left corner across to just above the corner of the right hand side in a southerly direction towards City Square.The street off the bottom right (continuation of Bond Street?) is now pedestrianised. If you look at the windows of M&S to the right of the corner it certainly appears they get further from the ground suggesting a downhill aspect. The next building “down” appears to be the Priestly Hall I mentioned and finally St Anne’s was compulsorarily purchased to be demolished in 1899. I don’t know when it was demolished but its replacement has been in situ since completion in 1904 50+ years before the photo

dogduke · Post by **dogduke** » Wed 23 Dec, 2009 3:42 pm

LS1 wrote: It's this building here. The old Cathedral that was replaced by the one that is now on Cookridge Street According to Leodis the changeover old/new cathedralstokk place 1902-1904

Trojan · Post by **Trojan** » Wed 23 Dec, 2009 4:23 pm

Oh dear

LS1 · Post by **LS1** » Wed 23 Dec, 2009 5:50 pm

I have to admit that I dont remember things in situ, but the the photographer on the M&S photo I posted earlier must have been stood with his back on the corner of the west side of Park Row where the HSBC building is looking in the direction of the corn Exchange. The right of the photo looks down to City Square and the left is going to bond street which the incline/ decline would fit with what is there today.