England's Banking Center

Threadneedle street is a cormption oí Thridenal street, meaning the third street f rom "Chepesyde" to the great thoroughfare froni London bridge to "Bushop Gate" (consisting of No streate and Bushop Gate streuce, AugloSaxon, thridda, third). Another etymology is Thrig-needle (three needie street), from the three needies which the Needie Makers' company bore in their arms. It begins at the Mansion house, and theref ore the Bank of England stands in it. The directors of the Bank of England were callea "The Old Lady In Threadneedle Street" by Wüliam Cobbett, because, like Mrs. Partington, they tried with their broom to keep back the Atlantic waves of national progress Af ter giving the foregoing, Brewer notes the following extract from Dickens' "Dr. Marigold:" "A süver cnrl paper that I myself took off the shining locks of the ever beautiful old lady of Threadneedle street" (a bank