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Gothic type building that nestles amongst other great Victorian architecture in Bradford. A lot of the buildings are shrouded in tight netting to prevent the birds nesting on the window ledges etc.
Not quite caught up with all the editing from the wedding at the weekend yet, should definitely have something for tomorrow, but i do have another new gallery of photos to share from the NatWest Island Games today.
This time it's cycling, and 118 new photos from the four cycling events. Starting with the Criterium held on the streets of Ventnor in the south of the island, followed by the Road Race & Time Trials on the undulating roads on the South West of the Island with the finish at Blackgang, and finally the Mountain Bike Races that took place at Cheverton Farm, Shorwell.
This wide-angle low POV shot is from the women's MTB on the final day of the games.
Click here to see the cycling gallery on my website.
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The closure of another Bank - this time its a branch of Nat West.
817 Banks closed in 2017 in the UK.
Apparently most of us bank on line now?
52 High St, Stamford, Lincolnshire PE9
By the time I post this photo taken three years ago, NatWest has permanently shut this branch.
Still a busy bee working as NatWest's photographer at the NatWest Island Games. Will catch up with everyone soon as i can.
ANOTHER NEW gallery added to my my website this morning. No Password Required!
New stuff from yesterday includes, golf, volleyball, squash, table-tennis, shooting and my favourites from the day… the cycling road race along the road from Brightstone to Blackgang with fabulous skies as a backdrop and a random celebrity guest appearance at the end.
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Another post and run this morning (pun intended :), apologies again as no time for visiting you this week, working 18 hour days as NatWest's photographer at the NatWest Island Games. But i will catch up with everyone (after i sleep for a few weeks)
NEW galleries added every day on my website. You'll need the top secret password NatWest (case sensitive).
Try and take a look at Wednesday Gallery if you can, we had a royal visit in the morning and went out on a RIB in Sandown bay to shoot the sailing and windsurfing in the afternoon. Full on day, drenched from head to toe and exhausted but loving it!
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This photo partially shows the low-relief NatWest bank building and the garage doors to the fire station building. This photo also shows the custom road texture paper overlays I applied to standard Lego road baseplates. Not only did this allow me to make a customized and realistic road, but it also allowed me to convert those surplus X-junctions into "straights" as shown here by making a bus stop lay-by. Other details include the bollards near the fire station, the period movie poster in the bus stop shelter, lampposts, cashpoint/ATM, rubbish bins and drainpipes.
Built 1867. A Gothic style former bank of snecked stone, with Bath stone freestone dressings and banding, and steep slate roof, hipped to the L. Two storeys and attic, its asymmetrical front comprises 3 irregular bays. The ashlar-faced porch is offset to right. The entrance doorway and the three windows in the right-hand bay together give the effect of an arcade. Each arch is enriched with disc ornamentation and the moulded capitals are continued as an impost band. Set-back buttress and pointed window in left-hand return of porch. At first floor, the gable has triple arcaded window with red sandstone colonnettes and pointed 2-pane sashes. Paired sash windows to attic, with colonnette with foliage capital, and high arched freestone tympanum with roundel decorated with foliage and '1867'. Left of the entrance is a 2-storey canted bay window. In the lower storey it has a 3-light mullioned and transomed windows under a broad shouldered head and in the upper storey it has 2 pointed sashes. In the narrower central bay is a similar pointed sash window, with disc ornamentation to the spandrels. Gabled dormer within roof. The forecourt has a coped dwarf wall.
A K6 type telephone kiosk of the type design of Giles Gilbert Scott, architect of London, introduced by the GPO in 1936. This example was cast by the Lion Foundry.
Dug out a few from the NatWest Island Games Archive for today, no real reason, just a random dip in my photo ocean.
This Vertorama from just after the finish of the Road Race at Blackgang Chine.
Click here to see galleries from all the sports on my website.
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The NatWest Tower (I refuse to call it Tower 42) from a slightly unconventional angle.
Until the completion of One Canada Square at Canary Wharf in 1990, it was the tallest building in the UK.
Hint for the title: the shape of the building in plan is that of the NatWest logo. ;-)
The architect, Richard Seifert, was also responsible for Centre Point on Tottenham Court Road, the NLA Tower in Croydon and the Tolworth Tower just by the A3 amongst others.
The former NatWest Tower at 103 Colmore Row, Birmingham city centre; it was demolished by 2017 to make way for the new building called 103 Colmore Row, which completed in 2022.
Hi everyone, apologies no time for flickring this week, working 18 hour days as NatWest's photographer at the NatWest Island Games.
New gallery added today on my website. You'll need the top secret password NatWest (case sensitive).
Will try and keep up with posting a gallery for each day, hope you like the pics and maybe see some of you at the games!
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I've decided to start pulling the odd one or two of my older pictures back to the top now and again in a new set called 'Bring Back an Oldie' - it always seems such a shame to me the way the older pictures on Flickr fade into obscurity :(
Butterfield Chambers
The recently closed NatWest bank premises on the corner of High Street and Butterfield Place in Tunstall.
Opened in 1899 by the Manchester and Liverpool District Bank, a company operating from 1829 until 1969 (for much of that time under the name District Bank) until it became National Westminster Bank.
Bank Chambers occupied by Barclays Bank sits beside this building, alongside the local Post Office. The windows above which don't hint at a great level of security for the bank.
The upper floors were at one time occupied by a firm of architects, Hulme Upright and Partners, where I worked in 1978.
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Walkie Talkie Bd. Torre Fenchurch
20 Fenchurch Street City de Londres
Arquitecto: Rafael Viñoly (Rafael Viñoly Architects) 2004-14
Tower 42 "NatWest Tower"
21 Old Broad Street. The City London
Arquitecto(s) R Siefert & Partners 1971 - 1980
The Leadenhall Building “Cheesegrater London”.
122 Leadenhall St. City London Londres
Arquitectura: Rogers Stirk Harbour +Partners. Ingeniería Arup. Ejecución 2002 – 2014
The Grade II Listed Natwest Bank at 225 High Street, Lincoln, Lincolnshire.
The original bank on the site was the Smith, Ellison and Company Bank and was built in 1775 and was renamed The Old Bank in 1867.
The current building was built in 1885, the architect was John Gibson and builders Robert Neill and Sons of Manchester. In 1902 the Bank was taken over by the Union Bank of London Ltd and then became the Union of London and Smiths Bank by 1908; 1918, merged with the National Provincial and Union Bank of England Ltd; 1924, 1937 National Provincial Bank; 1968 National Westminster Bank. Incorporates offices at the south end; 1914, Burton and Scorer; 1975, Philip Scorer solicitor; 1975-date Burton and Co solicitors.
Alesha Jamaican Model Out on the Town Spitalfields London Electric EV Racing Car at NatWest Bank Bishopsgate
Once the tallest building in both the UK and London, Tower 42, known originally as the National Westminster (Natwest) Tower, continues to be a prominent landmark on the city skyline, but is slowly being enveloped by a selection of newer, taller structures sprouting from almost out of nowhere!
Proposals for Tower 42 go back to the early 1960's, where the precursor company to Natwest, National Provincial Bank, desired a new headquarters. Design was handed to Swiss architect Richard Seifert, famous for many 1960's and 70's skyscraper designs such as the 1966 Centre Point tower on the Tottenham Court Road. Early proposals in 1964 ranged from a 450ft tower, to a later 647ft tower, both of which met with extreme opposition and controversy. Tower 42 was to be the first skyscraper constructed in the ancient City of London, and much criticism was to the proposed demolition of National Provincial's then headquarters, 15 Bishopsgate, which opened in 1865. Seifert however was notorious for overcoming the issues of planning objections, and eventually his final two designs were exhibited for a final consensus on what the new building would be. One design was a 600ft, 42 floor high building, comprised of a central core and three surrounding leaves, whilst the other design were a pair of 500ft tall Twin Towers. General opinion was that the Twin Tower design would look squat and ugly, and thus almost unanimously the single tower design was chosen. In an interesting twist, many believe that from above the design of the tower was meant to emulate the new Natwest Logo of 1968 when the bank was formed from the merger of the National Provincial and the Westminster Bank, but Seifert denied this as an urban myth, and had no intention to design the building as such.
Demolition of the original National Provincial headquarters began in 1970, and construction of the Natwest Tower was handed to contractor John Mowlem & Co. The building's design is of a peculiar kind, with none of the 42 floors above the surface being in contact with the ground, but are suspended by cantilevers from a huge central concrete core. The individual cantilever sections are split into the three leaves that look as though they form the Natwest Chevrons when looked at from above. The tower was also notable for many innovative design features, including double-decked elevators, which provide an express service between the ground/mezzanine levels and the sky lobbies at levels 23 and 24. Double decked elevators and sky lobbies were both new to the UK at the time. Other innovative features included an internal automated "mail train" used for mail deliveries and document distribution; an automated external window washing system; and computer controlled air conditioning. The tower also had its own telephone exchange in one of the basement levels – this area was decorated with panoramic photographs of the London skyline, creating the illusion of being above ground. Fire suppression design features included pressurised stairwells, smoke venting and fire retardant floor barriers. However, at the time of design, fire sprinkler systems were not mandatory in the UK and so were not installed.
The tower was completed in 1980, and the first tenants moved in the same year, with overall construction costing £72 million (£276 million today). The tower was officially opened by HM Queen Elizabeth II on June 11th, 1981, as the first skyscraper to be build in the old City of London, and as the tallest building in the UK. The tower however was not the tallest structure in the UK, that distinction going to the 1971 Emley Moor transmitting station in Yorkshire, which stands at 1,087 ft. The structure did however remain Britain's tallest building until 1990, when it was surpassed by One Canada Square in the new Canary Wharf development, this structure standing at 800ft.
On the 24th April, 1993, the tower was severely damaged by a truck bomb planted by the Provisional IRA, killing 1 and injuring 44. The attacks halted the movement of the entire Natwest company into the building, and caused £1 billion worth of damage. As a result, the entire structure had to be refurbished at a cost of £75 million, with some considerations for demolishing the structure being pushed back due to the huge expense. Full rebuilding of the structure was completed in January 1996, but Natwest did not reoccupy after opening, moving instead to a new headquarters just down the road. The tower was renamed Tower 42 in 1995, and has been host to a variety of Tenants.
The 24th floor hosts a restaurant, whilst the 42nd floor, which was formerly the indoor observation deck, is now home to the Champagne and Seafood bar, Bar 42. This bar was made somewhat famous in 2006 with Top Gear, who raced from Alba, in Northern Italy, to Tower 42 in a Bugatti Veyron and a Cessna 182 light aircraft, the race ending in what could almost be described as a dead-heat, but with Jeremy winning shortly before in the Veyron.
Today the Tower is still an ominous London skyscraper, but is slowly disappearing behind the latest generation of tall buildings that have sprouted over the past few years. From the South Bank, the tower is practically out of sight, blocked by the new Walkie Talkie, and from the east the Gherkin and Heron Tower obscure its view. From the west and north it can still be seen, but its days as the one and only skyscraper to be built in the old City have long since been and gone.
NatWest BizBus JJD464D AEC Routemaster Park Royal non psv promotion bus outside Derby Council House on 6 December 2014.
New as London Transport RML2464 in 1966
4th February 2018 - Den Road, Teignmouth, South Devon. Now closed and building vacant as from JUly 2018.
We are getting close to Remembrance Sunday and Armistice Day, and the former NatWest branch at the corner of St Philip's Place and Temple Row has been covered in poppies.
Seen from Cathedral Square.
One of the prominent financial chains found in the London region
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- The Londoners got funny nicknames for their landmark buildings. This scene of the London skyline captures three of those buildings, from left to right NatWest, Cheesegrater and Walkie-Talkie.
The final remnants of John Madin's Natwest Tower on Colmore Row, before 103 Colmore Row began to take shape, Birmingham city centre, July 2016
Building 42, formerly the NatWest tower
I have 2 more night photo workshops lined-up for the 7th and 14th of April and will list some more dates for April and May in the next day or two, you can book here www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/nigel-blake-16061853414
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Been busy this week helping My friend Jason (s0ulsurfing) at the Island Games as He is the official NatWest Island games Photographer, This is a shot i took last night at the Cycling Road time trial which was superb to watch! To see some of Jason's great shots click the link soulsurfing.photoshelter.com/gallery-collection/NatWest-I...
I will catch up with you all very soon!!!
The Postcard
A postally unused postcard bearing no publisher's name. The card, which has a divided back, was printed in Great Britain.
The BT Tower
The BT Tower is a communications tower located in Fitzrovia, London, owned by the BT Group. It has been previously known as the GPO Tower, the Post Office Tower and, most commonly, the British Telecom Tower.
The main structure is 177 metres (581 ft) high, with a further section of aerial rigging bringing the total height to 189 metres (620 ft).
Upon completion in 1964, the BT Tower overtook the Millbank Tower to become the tallest building in both London and the United Kingdom, titles that it held until 1980, when it in turn was overtaken by the NatWest Tower.
Commissioning and Design of the BT Tower
The tower was commissioned by the General Post Office (GPO). Its primary purpose was to support the microwave aerials then used to carry telecommunications traffic from London to the rest of the country, as part of the General Post Office microwave network.
It replaced a much shorter steel lattice tower which had been built on the roof of the neighbouring Museum telephone exchange in the late 1940's to provide a television link between London and Birmingham.
The taller structure was required to protect the radio links' "line of sight" against some of the tall buildings in London that were then in the planning stage. These links were routed via other GPO microwave stations at Harrow Weald, Bagshot, Kelvedon Hatch and Fairseat, and to places like the London Air Traffic Control Centre at West Drayton.
The tower was designed by the architects of the Ministry of Public Building and Works: the chief architects were Eric Bedford and G. R. Yeats.
Typical for its time, the building is concrete clad in glass. The narrow cylindrical shape was chosen because of the requirements of the communications aerials: the building will shift no more than 25 centimetres (10 in) in wind speeds of up to 150 km/h (95 mph).
Initially, the first 16 floors were for technical equipment and power. Above that was a 35-metre section for the microwave aerials, and above that were six floors of suites, kitchens, technical equipment, a revolving restaurant, and finally a cantilevered steel lattice tower. To prevent heat build-up, the glass cladding was of a special tint. The construction cost was £2.5 million.
Construction of the BT Tower
Construction began in June 1961; owing to the building's height and its having a tower crane jib across the top virtually throughout the whole construction period, it gradually became a very prominent landmark that could be seen from almost anywhere in London.
A question was raised in Parliament about the crane: In August 1963, Reginald Bennett MP asked the Minister of Public Buildings and Works, Geoffrey Rippon, how, when the crane on the top of the new Tower had fulfilled its purpose, he proposed to remove it. Rippon replied:
"This is a matter for the contractors. The
problem does not have to be solved for
about a year, but there appears to be no
danger of the crane having to be left in
situ."
The tower was topped out on the 15th. July 1964, and officially opened by the then-Prime Minister Harold Wilson on the 8th. October 1965.
The tower was originally designed to be just 111 metres (364 ft) high; its foundations are sunk down through 53 metres (174 ft) of London clay, and are formed of a concrete raft 27 metres (89 ft) square, 1 metre (3 ft) thick, reinforced with six layers of cables, on top of which sits a reinforced concrete pyramid.
Opening and Use of the BT Tower
The tower was officially opened to the public on the 19th. May 1966, by Tony Benn (then known as Anthony Wedgwood Benn) and Billy Butlin, with HM the Queen visiting on the 17th. May 1966.
As well as the communications equipment and office space, there were viewing galleries, a souvenir shop and a rotating restaurant on the 34th. floor; this was called The Top of the Tower, and operated by Butlins. It made one revolution every 23 minutes.
In its first year the Tower hosted just under one million visitors, and over 100,000 diners ate in the restaurant.
The 1971 Bombing of the BT Tower
A bomb, responsibility for which was at first claimed by the Kilburn Battalion of the IRA, exploded in the roof of the men's toilets at the Top of the Tower restaurant at 04:30 on the 31st. October 1971. Responsibility for the bomb was also claimed by members of the Angry Brigade, a far-left anarchist collective.
The restaurant was closed to the public for security reasons a matter of months after the bombing in 1971, and public access to the building as a whole ceased in 1981.
Despite being closed to the general public, the BT tower is sometimes used for private corporate events, and special events such as a children's Christmas party and Children in Need.
Even though it is closed, the tower retains its revolving floor, providing a full panorama over London and the surrounding area.
Races up the BT Tower
The first documented race up the tower's stairs was on the 18th. April 1968, between University College London and Edinburgh University; it was won by an Edinburgh runner in 4 minutes, 46 seconds.
In 1969, eight university teams competed, with John Pearson from Manchester University winning in a time of 5 minutes, 6 seconds.
Secrecy
Due to its importance to the national communications network, information about the BT Tower was designated an official secret.
In 1978, the journalist Duncan Campbell was tried for collecting information about secret locations, and during the trial the judge ordered that the sites could not be identified by name; the Post Office Tower could only be referred to as 'Location 23'.
It is often said that the tower did not appear on Ordnance Survey maps, despite being a 177-metre (581 ft) tall structure in the middle of central London that was open to the public for about 15 years.
However, this is incorrect; the 1:25,000 (published 1971) and 1:10,000 (published 1981) Ordnance Survey maps show the tower. It is also shown in the London A–Z street atlas from 1984.
In February 1993, the MP Kate Hoey used the tower as an example of trivial information being kept officially secret, and joked that she hoped parliamentary privilege allowed her to confirm that the tower existed and to state its street address.
The BT Tower in the 21st. Century
The BT Tower is still in use, and is the site of a major UK communications hub. Microwave links have been replaced by subterranean optical fibre links for most mainstream purposes, but the former are still in use at the tower.
The second floor of the base of the tower contains the TV Network Switching Centre which carries broadcasting traffic and relays signals between television broadcasters, production companies, advertisers, international satellite services and uplink companies.
The outside broadcast control is located above the former revolving restaurant, with the kitchens on floor 35.
Lighting Displays at the BT Tower
A renovation in the early 2000's introduced a 360° coloured lighting display at the top of the tower. Seven colours were programmed to vary constantly at night, and were intended to appear as a rotating globe to reflect BT's "Connected World" corporate styling.
The coloured lights give the tower a conspicuous presence on the London skyline at night. In October 2009, a 360° full-colour LED-based display system was installed at the top of the tower, to replace the previous colour projection system.
The new display, referred to by BT as the "Information Band", is wrapped around the 36th and 37th floors of the tower, 167 m (548 ft) up, and comprises 529,750 LEDs arranged in 177 vertical strips, spaced around the tower. The display is the largest of its type in the world, occupying an area of 280 square metres (3,000 sq. ft) and with a circumference of 59 m (194 ft).
The display is switched off at 10.30pm each day. On the 31st. October 2009, the screen began displaying a countdown of the number of days until the start of the London Olympics in 2012. In April 2019, the display spent almost a day displaying a Windows 7 error message.
The Re-Opening of the BT Tower
In October 2009, The Times reported that the rotating restaurant would be reopened in time for the 2012 London Olympics. However, in December 2010, it was further announced that the plans to reopen had now been "quietly dropped" with no explanation as to the decision.
For the tower's 50th anniversary, the 34th. floor was opened for three days from the 3rd. to the 5th. October 2015 to 2,400 winners of a lottery.
The Removal of Defunct Antennas
The BT Tower was given Grade II listed building status in 2003. Several of the defunct antennae attached to the building could not be removed unless the appropriate listed building consent was granted, as they were protected by this listing.
In 2011, permission for the removal of the defunct antennas was approved on safety grounds as they were in a bad state of repair, and the fixings were no longer secure. In December 2011, the last of the antennas was removed, leaving the core of the tower visible.
The BT Tower Lifts
Entry to the building is by two high-speed lifts which travel at a top speed of 1400 feet per minute (7 metres per second (16 mph)), reaching the top of the building in under 30 seconds. An Act of Parliament was passed to vary fire regulations, allowing the building to be evacuated by using the lifts – unlike other buildings of the time.
The Monitoring of Air Quality at the BT Tower
In 2006, the tower began to be used for short-term air quality observations by the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology.
This has continued in a more permanent form as the BT Tower Observatory, an urban atmospheric pollution observatory to help monitor air quality in the capital. The aim is to measure pollutant levels above ground level to determine their source. One area of investigation is the long-range transport of fine particles from outside the city.
Appearances of the BT Tower in Fiction
-- In the film Three Hats for Lisa (1965) the characters take refuge in the tower. In the story it is under construction.
-- Large portions of the Doctor Who serial The War Machines (1966) are set in and around the tower.
-- In the film Smashing Time (1967), the BT Tower appears to spin out of control, creating a fairground centrifugal effect for the occupants and short-circuiting the whole of London's power supply.
-- The tower is featured in Stanley Donen's film Bedazzled (1967) as a vantage point from which Peter Cook, playing Satan, launches various forms of mischief.
-- The tower is featured in The Goodies when it is toppled over by Twinkle the Giant Kitten in the episode "Kitten Kong" (1971). This scene was included in the title sequence of all later series.
-- Characters in Iris Murdoch's novel The Black Prince (1973) frequently reference the Post Office Tower. The restaurant is the setting for a lunch involving Bradley Pearson, the novel's first-person protagonist, and the daughter of rival novelist Arnold Baffin and his wife Rachel.
-- The tower is destroyed in the James Herbert novel The Fog (1975) by a Boeing 747 whose captain has been driven mad by the eponymous fog.
-- In The Judas Goat (1978), the fourth novel about Robert B. Parker's detective character Spenser, Spenser eats in the tower's revolving restaurant even though it violates Spenser's Law (that the quality of meals in revolving restaurants never match their price).
-- The tower is destroyed by an apparently alien robot from Mars – in fact a device operated by Baron Silas Greenback – in an episode of Danger Mouse (1981).
-- In Alan Moore's graphic novel V for Vendetta (1982) the tower is headquarters for both the "Eye", and the "Ear", the visual and audio surveillance divisions of the government. The tower is destroyed through sabotage. It is also featured in the film adaptation (2005), although in the film it is not destroyed. It is renamed Jordan Tower in the film and is the headquarters of the "British Television Network".
-- Frank Muir's short story "The Law Is Not Concerned With Trifles" is set in the tower's revolving restaurant.
-- Harry Adam Knight's sci-fi novel The Fungus (1985) climaxes in the tower, which undergoes a dramatic transformation:
"It resembled an enormous mushroom.
Fungus, dark and malevolent, had
accumulated around its bulbous summit."
-- In Steven King's book "It" (1986) the fictional character, Ben Hanscom is said to have designed the tower to look like a tunnel that connects two wings of the local library.
-- In Patrick Keiller's film London (1992) the narrator claims the tower is a monument to the love affair between Arthur Rimbaud and Paul Verlaine, who lived nearby.
-- The BT Tower appears on the cover of, and features in, Saturday by Ian McEwan (2005).
-- The bombing is a central plot feature of Hari Kunzru's novel My Revolutions (2007), in which the bomb is the work of political radicals who are never caught.
-- In Daniel H. Wilson's 2011 novel Robopocalypse, the tower, is used by the sentient artificial intelligence named Archos to control and jam satellite communications.
-- In Sky1's adaptation of The Runaway (2011) the bombing of the tower is featured in Episode 4.
-- In the film The Girl with All the Gifts (2016), fungi pods grow up around the tower.
-- In Watch Dogs: Legion (2020), the tower is portrayed as being operated by the game's fictional corporation Blume.
The Grade II Listed Natwest Bank at 225 High Street, Lincoln, Lincolnshire.
The original bank on the site was the Smith, Ellison and Company Bank and was built in 1775 and was renamed The Old Bank in 1867.
The current building was built in 1885, the architect was John Gibson and builders Robert Neill and Sons of Manchester. In 1902 the Bank was taken over by the Union Bank of London Ltd and then became the Union of London and Smiths Bank by 1908; 1918, merged with the National Provincial and Union Bank of England Ltd; 1924, 1937 National Provincial Bank; 1968 National Westminster Bank. Incorporates offices at the south end; 1914, Burton and Scorer; 1975, Philip Scorer solicitor; 1975-date Burton and Co solicitors.
Information Source:
www.heritageconnectlincoln.com/character-area/high-street...