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ninatoo wrote:And it goes beautifully with that 1929 map you posted a couple of pages back!
Nina
And yet some things about it (St. Andrews Sq.) are very suggestive, none more so than the large hexagonal stones that still lie flush with the street near the gates of Messrs Stephen Mitchell & Sons, the tobacco manufacturers on the east side of the square. The stones are said to be the foundations of two sentry boxes in which the two watchmen rested who watched the bank that existed here long ago.
Messrs Mitchell’s works comprise the old bank premises, whose frontage is still the same, save the widening of the doorway into a gate.
The bank cellars are still extant, bursting now only with ‘gold flake’ or other fragrant leaf, instead of the bullion of the past. The stone safes in the cellars are still preserved, Messrs Mitchell having refused to alter them along with the renovations their business made necessary.
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