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unusual facts about Pratt Street-Lombard Street



American College of Heraldry and Arms

The corporate address of the College was Harbormaster's Building, Herald's Mews on Longneck, Pier 4 Pratt Street, Baltimore, MD.

General Post Office

The Royal Mail (which, following its legalization, held a nominal monopoly on such delivery services) moved its headquarters to Lombard Street in the City in 1678 to better curtail such practices.

Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy

After the war, Studdert Kennedy was given charge of St Edmund, King and Martyr in Lombard Street, London.

Kitty Byron

At about 1 pm she sent an express letter by post office messenger from the Lombard Street Post Office to Baker at the Stock Exchange where he worked.

Lombard banking

Though the pawnshops were no longer manned by Jews and/or Jesuits, they were more and more often called Lombard houses, and most major port cities still have a 'Lombard Street' or 'Lombard Ally' today.

Lombard Street

Lombard Street, London, leading from the Bank of England to Gracechurch Street

Lombard Street, London

Karl Marx mentions Lombard Street in reference to credit and banking in Das Kapital.

Occupy Baltimore

Their first case was a house on West Lombard Street whose residents were threatened with eviction by Deutsche Bank.

President Street Station

The B&PD exchanged freight cars with the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (B&O), which had built a track (along Pratt Street) to the east Basin area from its original Mount Clare depot on the western side of the business district.

Samuel Hoare Jr

In 1772 he became a junior partner in the Lombard Street bank of Bland and Barnett, which became Barnett, Hoare & Co.

Taunton Castle

By 1780, many parts of the castle, had fallen into a bad condition and were repaired in a Georgian style by Sir Benjamin Hammet, a banker of Lombard Street, London, and the Member of Parliament for Taunton.


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