Edmund Burke, Charles Dickens, The Bush, Bristol & West Building Society, and 2 others

This black commemorative plaque records: On this site stood The Bush, a celebrated coaching inn. Edmund Burke M.P. used it as his election campaign headquarters. In Pickwick Papers, Charles Dickens had Mr. Winkle stay there. The inn later became Bush Chambers, where Bristol & West Building Society was founded in 1850. The present building was erected in 1857 by The West of England and South Wales District Bank. The Architects W. B. Gingell and T. R. Lysaght based its High Renaissance style on Jacopo Sansovino's Library of St. Mark, Venice. It has been occupied by Lloyds Bank Limited since 1892 and the exterior remains substantially in its original form.

Edmund Burke was an influential philosopher, statesman, and author known for his reflections on the French Revolution; Charles Dickens, a renowned Victorian novelist, immortalized The Bush inn in his work "The Pickwick Papers"; William Bruce Gingell and T. R. Lysaght were architects who designed the present building in High Renaissance style inspired by Jacopo Sansovino's Library of St. Mark in Venice.