Bank in a brewery
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Bank in a brewery
Image: © Neil Owen Taken: 4 Sep 2014
This Barclay's branch occupies a former brewery dating back to the nineteenth century. Swindon's Old Town was the cradle of many such enterprises, with the North Wiltshire Brewery being recorded nearby as far back as 1761. By the mid-1800s, Edward John Ewer had taken on the reins and let the business out to a John Harding Sheppard. But Cirencester draper's son Richard Bowly took over the brewery in the late 1850s; he made a good living and expanded the business, with new premises designed by London architect Arthur Kinder.
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Image Location
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51.552062
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-1.774382