I'm so pleased to see this article: CO Parnell is a forbear of mine. He's been badly treated by history: as well as the Army & Navy Club, other losses to a Philistine age include his Palatine Club in Liverpool, and his London & County Bank in Lombard Street, in Italian palazzo style. The bank in your link is in Aldersgate by his son CJ Parnell, who also designed the (still extant, now a restaurant and offices) Yorkshire Club in York. So your interesting link between banks and clubs, both exuding Victorian respectability and solidity I feel, is well supported.
I'm so pleased to see this article: CO Parnell is a forbear of mine. He's been badly treated by history: as well as the Army & Navy Club, other losses to a Philistine age include his Palatine Club in Liverpool, and his London & County Bank in Lombard Street, in Italian palazzo style. The bank in your link is in Aldersgate by his son CJ Parnell, who also designed the (still extant, now a restaurant and offices) Yorkshire Club in York. So your interesting link between banks and clubs, both exuding Victorian respectability and solidity I feel, is well supported.
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I had no idea! How cool.