What "first" did the building society that funded A statue of Sherlock Holmes by the sculptor John Doubleday achieve?
Statue of Sherlock Holmes, London:  Unveiled on 23 September 1999, the sculpture was funded by the Abbey National building society, whose headquarters were on the purported site of the famous address. Abbey National:  As the former Abbey National Building Society, it was the first building society in the United Kingdom to demutualise, doing so in July 1989.
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