De La Rue then as a stationer and printer. In 1831 he secured his business a Royal Warrant to produce playing cards. In 1855 it started printing postage stamps and in 1860 banknotes. In 1896, the family partnership was converted into a private company. In 1921, the de la Rue family sold their interests. The company was first listed on the London Stock Exchange in 1947. Then called "Thomas De La Rue & Company, Limited", it changed its name in 1958 to "The De La Rue Company Limited". A takeover bid for De La Rue was made by the Rank Organisation plc in
L'Église de la rue Belliard 1973 to become "L’Église Protestante Bruxelles-Botanique". The church building on "rue Belliard" was sold in 1974 and a new building on "boulevard Bisschoffsheim" dedicated in 1977. Succession of pastors at "L’Église de la rue Belliard" L'Église de la rue Belliard L’Église de la rue Belliard was a Brussels-based evangelical Protestant congregation, started in 1837 when a group left the Temple de l'Observatoire Protestant church. "L’Église de la rue Belliard" originally met on "rue du Jeu de paume" under pastor Denis Lourde-Laplace, then on "24 rue Ducale" under the ministry of pastor Edouard Panchaud (1839–1862). In 1851 the congregation built an