Maps

786 maps found.

1903, Bank's Green Ref. HOSM36964
1903, Bank's Green Ref. HOSM37514
1947, Bank's Green Ref. NPO632598
1919, Bank's Green Ref. POP632598
1898, Bank's Green Ref. RNE632598
1901-1902, Bank's Green Ref. RNC632598
1947, Banks Ref. NPO632580
1897, Banks Ref. RNE632578
1919, Bank Ref. POP632253
1924, Banks Ref. POP632580
1947, Banks Ref. NPO632578
1895, Bank Ref. RNE632253
1896, Banks Ref. RNE632580
1905, Banks Ref. RNC632575
1925, Banks Ref. POP632578
1940, Bank Ref. NPO632253
1899, Banks Ref. HOSM36963
1919, Vernham Bank Ref. POP858858
1924, Weld Bank Ref. POP862832
1919, West Bank Ref. POP863677

Books

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Memories

6,668 memories found. Showing results 1 to 10.

Grandmother

Born Glasgow 1952, visited my granny at 249a Edgware Road on many occasions, she lived above Barclays bank.

A memory of Colindale by John Robertson

A Memory Of Heswall Children's Hospital

Anybody remember me in Heswall Children’s Hospital. My name then was Veronica Roberts I had a RTA on the way home from school beginning of summer 1957.I had a broken leg, concussion and a broken nose. I had my ...Read more

A memory of Heswall by Veronica Kelly

Timber

I lived in Malvern Road and remember the winter of '47 when we had six weeks of snow and wonderful tobogganing on the slopes. My dad was the manager of Park&Brown Jeffery Street and a skilled wood man who was able to build me an ...Read more

A memory of Gillingham by Michael Barton

Post Office

I remember that postage stamp machine outside the post office. If you put a halfpenny in the penny slot & flicked it in forcefully you obtained a penny stamp. My mother made me & a friend, who shall remain nameless, ...Read more

A memory of Skelmanthorpe by Bob Slater

Harrow Driving School Rayners Lane 1985 1986 Approx

Memories of getting the tube from Arnos Grove to Rayners Lane and then the long walk up Imperial Drive - until reaching the driving centre. The set up included traffic lights, zebra crossings, ...Read more

A memory of Harrow by John Walmisley

Larner And Mustoe Families

I am very interested in Northleach because my family connections, the Mustoes and Larners, go back several hundred years there and certainly in the case of the Larners back to the 1600's. Both families were shepherds ...Read more

A memory of Northleach by Gary Hargreaves

Caravan Holiday In 50s

My parents had a caravan at The Old Coastguards close to Seasalter Sailing Club from 50s to 70s. It had only 3 caravans on it. I regularly got up early as a child to accompany the site owner, a super guy, while he followed the ...Read more

A memory of Seasalter by Andrew Henderson

A Holiday From Glasgow

I went to fornethy residential school twice in my childhood, each time my mum was having a child. 1960 and 1962. I spent 6 weeks each time. I have read thru most of the comments here, and I’m so glad for me ...Read more

A memory of Fornethy Residential School by Letitia Latt

Lord Mayor Treloar Hospital Sandy Point

At the age of 12 I was a patient at Treloars in Alton, having been diagnosed as having TB knee - a clout with a cricket ball was a little more serious than just a swollen knee, and I was sent to ...Read more

A memory of Hayling Island in 1953 by Heather Tierney

Post War Harlesden.

I was born in Tredegar, South Wales in April 1941. My mother had been evacuated to that small welsh town when she fell pregnant with me in 1940. We lived with her parents. My dad was away doing War things. We moved back to London ...Read more

A memory of Harlesden by John Howley

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Captions

2,423 captions found. Showing results 1 to 24.

Caption For Manchester, Brooks Bank C1873

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

Caption For Stourbridge, High Street C1965

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.

Caption For Uttoxeter, High Street C1955

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

Caption For Huddersfield, New Street 2005

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

Caption For Wilmslow, Bank Square Gardens C1955

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

Caption For Launceston, Square And War Memorial C1922

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

Caption For Leverington, Roman Bank C1965

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

Caption For Stafford, Market Square C1965

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

Caption For Bishop's Waltham, High Street C1955

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.

Caption For Bury St Edmunds, Buttermarket C1955

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

Caption For Chandler's Ford, The Parade C1965

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.

Caption For Salisbury, Blue Boar Row C1950

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

Caption For Twickenham, King Street 1909

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

Caption For Reading, River And Promenade C1955

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.

Caption For Meifod, The Village C1960

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

Caption For Lincoln, Guildhall 1890

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.

Caption For Chepstow, High Street 1957

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.

Caption For Prestbury, The Village C1955

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'.

Caption For Dovedale, Ilam Rock 1894

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

Caption For East Grinstead, High Street 1921

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.

Caption For Burgess Hill, Station Road C1950

A branch of Barclays Bank lies further down the street on the corner.

Caption For Salisbury, Blue Boar Row C1950

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

Caption For Tregaron, View From The Church Tower C1965

On the right is a half-timbered building that houses a bank.

Caption For Lincoln, Stonebow 1901

The Hepworths shop in photograph No 25657 was taken over by a local bank and given a splendidly bulbous and fruity Flemish-style ground floor soon after 1890.