The middle of the nineteenth century rebuilt Broad Street. The Bank of England branch went up between 1844 and 1847, and the Guildhall was rebuilt in 1846. In 1865 demolition began on the White Lion and the White Hart for a new hotel, which opened in 1869. In 1867 the Brandy Cask was pulled down and No. 51 rose in its place, in red and cream Venetian Gothic, a few doors from the new hotel’s Italian Renaissance front.
Everard’s Printing Works
In 1900 and 1901 the printer Edward Everard built new works at Nos. 37 and 38. Its front, designed by W. J. Neatby, is covered in Doulton Carrara ware tiles and shows Gutenberg and William Morris, founders of modern printing, with a woman holding a lamp and a mirror for Light and Truth and the spirit of Literature above. It is the largest decorative facade of its kind in Britain.