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Barclay's Bank memorial bench, Edinburgh

 
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Adam Brown
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PostPosted: Thu May 21, 2009 1:59 pm    Post subject: Barclay's Bank memorial bench, Edinburgh Reply with quote

One of the many memorial benches in Edinburgh City Centre is to the memory of Barclay's Bank staff who lost their lives in both World Wars.

This is a 'misplaced' rather than 'lost' memorial. This bench may still be sitting in somewhere public in Edinburgh but it is not in the place I saw it last year and unfortunately I didn't have a camera with me when I did see it. This is really just to make people aware of it and to keep their eyes peeled if they happen to pass any memorial benches in Edinburgh.

I spotted it last year on Princes Street in front of the Scott Monument. All benches have now been removed from Princes Street so I looked in East Princes Street Gardens but no luck there either. Unfortunately because it is a bench it is not always possible to see the plaque with people sitting in front of it so it may still be near the Scott Monument or it may be in storage until the tram works are finished.

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Adam
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PostPosted: Thu May 21, 2009 3:44 pm    Post subject: barclays bank edinburgh Reply with quote

Hi Adam,

Have you emailed Barclays bank head office and the lord provost of Edinburgh as you usually get the result ?


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PostPosted: Thu May 21, 2009 3:56 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Pat

Unfortunately in this case I don't know if it will work. I know the bench still exists but I doubt in all the upheaval in central Edinburgh if anyone in the bank or the council actually knows where it is.

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PostPosted: Sat May 23, 2009 5:44 pm    Post subject: bench Reply with quote

Just hope that the bench does not get "lost " as that seems what happened to the Roll of Honour for the Great War of the Arbroath high school when they moved to a new purpose built school in the mid 1980s. The roll of honour has not been seen since and as usual no one knows using the politicans answer " It wasnae me Mr !"
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