Threadneedle Street
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Threadneedle Street is a street in the City of London, England, between Bishopsgate at its northeast end and Bank Junction in the southwest. It is one of nine streets that converge at Bank. It lies in
Looking northeast up Threadneedle Street
South Sea Company
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The South Sea Company was a British joint-stock company founded in January 1711, created as a public-private partnership to consolidate and reduce the cost of the national debt. To generate income, in
Threadneedle Street
…since 1347. Reportedly the British national anthem was sung, in private, in 1607 for the first time, conducted by John Bull. The headquarters of the South Sea Company was located on the street, from 1711 to the 1850s. The London office of the world's oldest merchant bank, Berenberg Bank, is located at No. 60…
The Dividend Hall of South Sea House, 1810
Heraldic grouping above main entrance to the surviving South Sea House, Threadneedle Street, rebuilt after the fire of 1826
1723 pro-forma power of attorney signed by a shareholder of the South Sea Company showing the company's coat of arms and the Latin motto A Gadibus usque Auroram ("From Cádiz to Dawn", Juvenal, Satires, 10)
The South Sea Bubble by Edward Matthew Ward, 1847. A Hogarthian image of the 1720 "South Sea Bubble" now in the Tate Britain