View of stone-faced, four-storey buildings in Birchin Lane in the City of London, looking south towards Lombard Street. The buildings at numbers 2 to 4 , right, are Grade II listed, listing number 1359147. Occupants of the buildings include various banks and insurance brokers, along with the glazed shopfront of John Haynes Company Limited, jeweller and silversmiths, at 23. Vehicles visible in the lane include Ford Escort Mark I vans, seen on a delivery. The Royal Bank of Scotland building at 60 to 62a Lombard Street, left beyond the vans (since renamed 'Falcon House'), and Royal Insurance building at 24 to 28 Lombard Street, opposite the end of the lane, are separately Grade II listed, entries 1193535 and 1064630, respectively. The jeweller's shop was the scene of a raid in December 1944, where the robbers were confronted by a lone member of the public, Captain Ralph Douglas Binney, who unfortunately died from his injuries following a struggle to prevent their escape. This event is commemorated by the Binney Memorial plaque on the side of the shop, unveiled by the Duke of Edinburgh in December 1986. The second-floor link bridge, above Change Alley and the entrance to number 20, has since been removed, and the narrow lane, pedestrianized.