![]() Stevenson, Salt & Company for the amalgamation with this Company of their Banking Business at Stafford, Lichfield, Rugeley, and Eccleshall, and that this agreement has had the unanimous approval of the Extraordinary General Meeting held on 31st January last. Your Directors have the satisfaction to report that they have concluded an agreement with the well-known and old-established firm of Messrs. Williams, Wednesbury, and Messrs.Stevenson, Salt, & Co., Stafford and Lichfield. Moilliet and Sons, with-which have subsequently been amalgamated the Banks of Messrs. LLOYDS BANKING COMPANY LIMITED – Authorized Capital £2,000,000. The first report of the company in 1865 stated: converted into a joint-stock company known as Lloyds Banking Company Ltd. The association with the Taylor family ended in 1852 and, in 1865, Lloyds & Co. When Lloyds took over that bank in 1884, it continued to trade "at the sign of the black horse". Stokes was a goldsmith and "keeper of the running cashes" (an early term for banker) and the business became part of Barnett, Hoares & Co. The black horse regardant device dates from 1677, when Humphrey Stokes adopted it as sign for his shop. The symbol adopted by Taylors and Lloyds was the beehive, representing industry and hard work. The first branch office opened in Oldbury, some six miles (10 km) west of Birmingham, in 1864. The origins of Lloyds Bank date from 1765, when button maker John Taylor and Quaker iron producer and dealer Sampson Lloyd set up a private banking business in Dale End, Birmingham. Sampson Lloyd II (1699 - 1779), Birmingham iron merchant and founder of Lloyds Bank in 1765 It also operates a number of office complex, brand headquarters and data centres in Birmingham, Yorkshire including Leeds, Sheffield, Halifax and Wolverhampton. It has its operational headquarters in London and other offices in Wales and Scotland. In January 2009, it became the principal subsidiary of Lloyds Banking Group, which was formed by the acquisition of HBOS by the then-Lloyds TSB Group. ![]() In 1995 it merged with the Trustee Savings Bank and traded as Lloyds TSB Bank plc between 19. įounded in Birmingham in 1765, it expanded during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and took over a number of smaller banking companies. As of 2012 it had 16 million personal customers and small business accounts. Lloyds Bank is the largest retail bank in Britain, and has an extensive network of branches and ATMs in England and Wales (as well as an arrangement for its customers to be serviced by Bank of Scotland branches in Scotland, Halifax branches in Northern Ireland and vice versa) and offers 24-hour telephone and online banking services. It has traditionally been considered one of the " Big Four" clearing banks. Previous buildings to both, more in character.Lloyds Bank plc is a British retail and commercial bank with branches across England and Wales. The building is of high quality and in good repair but architecturally less successful than No. Roof, two stone capped gables enclosing brickwork with pre-cast concrete coping to brick return into roof on left. Raised brick quoins at each end of elevation and between windows and pressed steel downpipe and hopper in centre. Second floor, two square windows with square panes in lead casements, moulded stone mullions, quoin style surrounds and moulded dripstones over. Dressed Portland stone dado to ground floor. Ground/first floors, each has two single storey height windows with square panes in lead casements, moulded stone mullions and transoms, quoin style surrounds and moulded dripstones over. 83 on three storeys with two window façade under two stone capped gables facing High Street and in red rustic semi-faced brick walling. Upper storey clad in weatherboarding with two sash windows and slow pitched roof, similar in structure to several others in town before weatherboard section added.Įmpty until 1948 when demolished and rebuilt as part of LloydsĪt the foot of the page is a photograph from the 1981 survey.īuilt 1948 in Jacobean style to match No. ![]() 85 comprised two cottages occupied by baker and greengrocer, rebuilt in late 17th/early 18th century, it had two bay windows with squared glass panes and roofed pillared porch between them, all surmounted by decorated cornice, and approached by two steps with white faced stone treads from the street.
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