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These are the premises of the bank run as Cunliffe Brooks & Co, one of Manchester's private banks.

The words 'Old Bank' inscribed over the entrance of the building in the centre refer to Waldron and Hill, the first bank to open on this site in 1780.

The building on the corner with the clock showing 2.20 (right) is Williams Deacon's Bank.

Established in 1827, the Huddersfield Banking Company was only the second joint stock bank in the country, created under an Act to prevent a recurrence of the banking crisis of the previous year

At the other end of Grove Street, Bank Square took its name from the Union Bank of Manchester, with its fine clock and cupola.

Of the businesses that surrounded the square in 1922, only four remain in their original positions: Barclay's Bank, originally built for the East Cornwall Bank in 1885 with the town clock on its corner

This is not actually a Roman bank, but one constructed in Saxon times to protect the villages in the fens from flooding.

In 1737 a Stafford mercer, John Stevenson, started a bank, one of the earliest outside London.

Bishop's Waltham is still remembered for having the only privately owned bank in the country, before it was sold to Barclays in the early 1950s.

On the right is Lloyds Bank, built in 1795-97, with Adam-style doors and ground floor windows, as Spink and Carss' Bank.

Another view of the Parade, showing Lowmans, baker; Lloyds Bank; Jenkins, newsagent and tobacconist; National Provincial Bank; Dews, children's clothing; and an estate agent.

In the 19th century, banks often built very imposing buildings to reflect their status in everyday life.

This view of King Street looks east towards the grand Portland stone bank at its end.

This view, looking west from the present Caversham Bridge past the Reading Rowing Club behind the coach, shows well the flat south bank in contrast to the steep and heavily treed Caversham bank.

This fine village could support its own bank (the white-painted building in the centre) in 1960.

To the right is the grandiose Italianate bank of 1883 by the noted architect John Gibson, now the Natwest Bank; its fine banking hall has recently been very well restored.

Lloyds Bank on the left has moved, and the National Provincial Bank further up on the left is now Barclays Bank, which has been altered extensively.

The magpie building in the centre here is now the National Westminster Bank – when the photograph is enlarged, a sign is visible which reads 'District Bank'.

Ivy-clad Ilam Rock rises dramatically from the banks of the River Dove.

At No 11 next door to the Capital & Counties Bank (which later became the National Provincial Bank), is the hardware store of Miss Edith Annie Miller.