Two for the price of one
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Two for the price of one
Image: © Neil Owen Taken: 4 Sep 2014
These two ornate entrances to the Lloyds Bank branch in the High Street are evidence of banking in the past. Although now one, they were two different outfits: the left was Capital and Counties Bank, the right was the County of Gloucester Bank. The dates in the stonework are 1760 and 1906. Oddly, Lloyds Bank started out as Taylors and Lloyds in 1765. The Capital and Counties began in 1877 with a result of a merger between the Hampshire Banking Company and the North Wilts Banking Company; the County of Gloucester was created from the merger of Gloucester County & City Bank (established in 1834) and the Cirencester-based bank Pitt, Croome, Bowley & Brown (established in 1790).
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Image Location
Latitude
51.552061
Longitude
-1.774094