Gurney Times, Celebrating 200 Years of Banking 1775-1975
Category
Ephemera
Date
2014
Materials
Paper
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Peckover House, Cambridgeshire
NT 782485
Summary
A facsimile copy of the commemorative newspaper, Gurney Times. 'Barclays Bank has pleasure in presenting this commemorative newspaper to celebrate 200 years of Gurney bankers in Norwich.' Signed local director. Articles on: Norwich weavers; The Weaver's Friend; A New Bank for Norwich (1775); Joseph Gurney (1830); Joseph John Gurney (1847); Hudson Gurney (1864); Hudson Gurney the Scholar; Our Blind Mayor (1887); Elizabeth Fry; Gurney Commissions Famous Artist; 'Stand and Deliver!' an account of a highway robbery in Feb 1786 involving the theft of bullion being delivered from Mr Jonathan Peckover's shop to Messrs Gurneys Bank, King's Lynn. The pistol and blunderbuss involved in the incident are hung at Fakenham Bank now Barclays; An Improved Recreation Ground for Norwich (1886); Bank Clerks wear Top Boots; House of Commons - Mr Gladstone visits Samuel Gurney, banker, Lombard St; Advance News - of new banking house, Norwich (1775); The Castle Museum; Panic Reigns - banking crisis; Threat of Invasion! (1803-4); Poem - Joseph John to John Henry Gurney; Royal Agricultural Show at Norwich (1886); An Historic Amalgamation; Barclays Bank, Bank Plain; Presentation to Messrs Gurney & Co from the citizens of Norwich (1896); County Banking, Gurney Bank of the Eastern Counties (1896); A copy of an engraved map of Norwich (1789). Advertisements: Norwich union fire insurance; J & J Colman - Mustard, Starch & Blue Manufacturers.
Provenance
Purchased by the National Trust, 2014