Louisa Banner and son Tom in 1931, King’s Lynn

7 Chapel Street, King’s Lynn

History of 7 Chapel Street

This was the home of Louisa Banner and her children during WWII.

She was manager of the East Anglian Trustees Savings Bank. She also took on three evacuee children at this address.

In 1941 Rev Edmund Stokes, Catholic priest, wrote a letter supporting her application for tenancy of a house.

Letter to Louisa Banner from Rev Stokes 30.9.1941

At the end of the war, 1946, Louisa was thank by her bank for her four and a half years work at the bank.

Louisa Banner letter of gratitude for war service

Louisa had been living in the 1920s in Wymondham with her invalid husband.

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