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EVERYTHING must go at Barclays. The demolition men are gathering in Lombard Street to lay waste the head office — a fine example of that unloved architectural style, Banker's Picture-Palatial (or Odeon Cum Dignitate.) The managing director has moved out to the Mint, a dwindling rearguard holds the fort, and Barclays' premises department seeks takers for the fixtures and fittings. (The building must be the best mine of honey-coloured marble north of Carrara.) A final clearance sale is planned, with lots and lots of lots of the prints which hang on the managers' walls. Hurry along; such sales can offer unusual value. When a merchant bank, recently moving house, sent its old furniture to auction, a young spark of my acquaintance successfully bid for his boss's desk. He did well — it proved still to contain his department's confidential reports, and also the salary list.
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