A century in the past the wrecking ball demolished the halls, courtyards, arches and domes of one among London’s best-loved buildings in what the architectural historian Nikolaus Pevsner would decry as “the best architectural crime” to befall the capital within the twentieth century.
The Outdated Girl of Threadneedle Road (because the Financial institution of England was nicknamed after a satirical 1797 cartoon of William Pitt the Youthful, prime minister from 1783 to 1801, wooing an previous woman wearing pound notes) has been the center of the Metropolis since 1734.
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