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Around the Monopoly board with the Hand in Hand registers - Part 4 Let’s all go down the Strand

Our first stop on this side of the board is Strand where I noted Hand in Hand insuring a number of successful businesses — so many, in…

Dec 4, 2024

Around the Monopoly board with the Hand in Hand registers - Part 4 Let’s all go down the Strand

Dec 4, 2024

Around the Monopoly board with the Hand in Hand registers — part 3 Electric Light Company to Vine…

Part 3 of our trip around the monopoly board begins with the electric light company. Although the registers are a bit too early for Hand…

Nov 3, 2024

Around the Monopoly board with the Hand in Hand registers — part 3 Electric Light Company to Vine…

Nov 3, 2024

Insuring Grosvenor Square

The final episodes of the latest Bridgerton series are about to drop on Netflix. The fictional Bridgertons and their neighbours, the…

Jun 12, 2024

Insuring Grosvenor Square

Jun 12, 2024

Remembering D-Day

Today is the 80th anniversary of D-Day when over 150,000 allied troops landed on the beaches of Normandy from more than 5000 ships and…

Jun 6, 2024

Remembering D-Day

Jun 6, 2024

The Flixborough Disaster

Today is the 50th anniversary of the Flixborough disaster. On 1st June 1974, a cloud of hot cyclohexane vapour escaped from the Nypro UK…

Jun 1, 2024

The Flixborough Disaster

Jun 1, 2024

Around the Monopoly board with the Hand in Hand Registers — Part 2 — Pall Mall

Part two of our trip round the Monopoly board starts (and ends) at Pall Mall. I’ve spotted so many houses Hand in Hand insured here…

Apr 24, 2024

Around the Monopoly board with the Hand in Hand Registers — Part 2 — Pall Mall

Apr 24, 2024

Around the Monopoly board with the Hand in Hand Registers — Part 1

At the end of last year, we finally finished our mammoth project to scan the 150 policy registers of our oldest ancestor company Hand in…

Apr 18, 2024

Around the Monopoly board with the Hand in Hand Registers — Part 1

Apr 18, 2024

Insuring Georgian Wimbledon

The Wimbledon Championships finish week so I thought I’d have a look at properties we insured in Wimbledon, — or Wimbleton, as the Hand in…

Jul 15, 2023

Insuring Georgian Wimbledon

Jul 15, 2023

Insuring Georgian Chelsea

It is Chelsea Flower Show this week, so I’ve used it as an excuse to look at some of the references to Chelsea I’ve found while scanning…

May 24, 2023

Insuring Georgian Chelsea

May 24, 2023

Tales of coronations past

The coronation of King Charles III will be the 12th coronation since Aviva’s oldest ancestor company, Hand in Hand, was established in…

May 4, 2023

Tales of coronations past

May 4, 2023

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