LARGER PREMISES NEEDED.
The building programme of the banks throughout the country was due to the post-War increase in the business of banking ; this entailed larger staffs at the respective head offices, which were in most cases already cramped and inconvenient, a state of affairs which has led to most bank buildings in the City being recon- structed or rebuilt. Within a stone's throw of the Old Lady of Threadneedle Street, herself in a state of transformation, a dozen palatial buildings have sprung up during the last six years.
With perhaps one exception, the architectural treatment is on conventional lines. Nevertheless, there is in each of these buildings, as regards their external treatment, a marked individuality—the personality and characteristics of the author of the design expressed in material form.
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