Barclays Bank, Newcastle-under-Lyme
Barclays Bank can be traced all the way back to two goldsmiths in 1690, and is one of the oldest banks in the United Kingdom. It gained its modern name in 1736. This photograph shows the bank whilst it ...
Halifax Building Society, Ironmarket, Newcastle-under-Lyme
Halifax Building Society was established in 1853. At the time of writing (December 2024) this building is in use as the Cancer Research Charity Shop; the bank had moved a few doors away, nearer the ...
Leek United and Midlands Building Society, Newcastle-under-Lyme
The Leek United and Midlands Building Society was first established in 1863, and became Leek United Building Society in 1990. At the time of writing (December 2024) the building society is still in operation ...
Rear view High Street, Newcastle-under-Lyme
This is the rear view a part of the High Street. At the time the building housed Abbey National Building Society and Boots chemists. The Abbey National Building Society was absorbed into the Spanish ...
South Staffordshire Building Society, Ironmarket, Newcastle-under-Lyme
The building society opened in 1902, and further sites opened throughout the 1950s and 1960s. It was eventually merged with Portman Building Society in 2003, and then Nationwide Building Society in 2007. ...