LLOYDS BANK
Change may well be the only permanent feature of life, in little matters and in great. Typifying the latter is the change related to the giant edifice in Hopton Street between the river and Southwark Street. On the site of old railway warehouses demolition, then digging deep foundations in anticipation of a banking network's evolving computer needs, made place for Lloyds Bank Operations Centre. This first disturbed the scene and then was steadily accepted by many as a significant symbol of the requirements of new technology which influenced everyone and was itself subject to rapid change, first in magnification of scale and then in miniaturisation.
We can all share in grappling with the many difficult questions and decisions about the use that is made of money, technology, accounting, auditing and banking in its many forms, so that in everyday economic matters opportunities for wise action are heightened and dangers of deep indignity averted.
The Christian faith has relevance to the £ in your pocket, the micro-computer on your desk and every thing from matters pertaining to the sustenance of individuals to the wealth of nations. The quantum leap in Information Technology was of major new significance in the 1980s as the advent of this bulky, yet strangely intriguing building testifies.
