Underbank Hall on Great Underbank, Stockport, Cheshire UK, is Elizabethan, dating from the late 16th century. It was the town house of the Arderne family of Bredbury. The hall was sold for 3,000 guineas in September 1823 to the banking firm of Christy Lloyd & Co which became the Stockport and East Cheshire Bank in the following year. In 1829 it became part of the Manchester and Liverpool District Banking Company which by 1880 had 54 branches, in Lancashire, Cheshire, Derbyshire, Staffordshire and Shropshire. The bank changed its name to the District Bank in 1924 and in 1962 was acquired by the National Provincial Bank. Then in 1970 this bank merged with the Westminster Bank to form the National Westminster Bank, which is now known simply as NatWest.
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What a marvelous, beautiful old building! And such an interesting history! Great post, Gerald!
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Sylvia
They just don't make buildings like that anymore. Such a shame.
ReplyDeleteImagine how wonderful that would look surrounded by open country.
ReplyDeleteFor a minute I thought this was York! Great shot Gerald x
ReplyDeleteA beautiful building made more interesting by its history.
ReplyDeleteThat is a beautiful bank. What gorgeous architecture. Wow. Oustanding!
ReplyDeleteWonderful old building, - I would like to Bank there. It looks very stable and secure!
ReplyDeleteLovely old building....
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Sherry
Beautiful old building. It sure has more charm than the bank that I go to.
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely beautiful. The name remnids me of hobbits :)
ReplyDeleteA beautiful building how lucky it survived. Banks, mmm is that u for usury as well.
ReplyDeleteThe mergers and the new shortened name sound very American. But the building is definitely not--beautiful!
ReplyDeleteI must come and visit Cheshire. I believe it has more than its fair share of these lovely half-timbered Elizabethan buildings!
ReplyDeleteThe stories those old walls could tell!
ReplyDeleteI wish we had more of that kind of architecture.
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