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Cunliffe, Brooks and Co. was a bank founded in 
A new bank building in Manchester was opened in 1868 at nos. 46-48 Brown Street; the architect was
Blackburn
Blackburn () is an industrial town and the administrative centre of the Blackburn with Darwen borough in Lancashire, England. The town is north of the West Pennine Moors on the southern edge of the Ribble Valley, east of Preston and nort ...
, Lancashire
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, England
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in 1792.
The bank founded by cotton entrepreneur William Brooks (1762–1846) and Roger Cunliffe. In 1819, Samuel Brooks, son of one of the founders, opened a branch of the bank in Manchester. In the 1820s, a second generation Cunliffe opened a London house, at 29 Lombard Street. In 1844, the Manchester bank was listed in an Act of Parliament
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as one of ten provincial banks working under an arrangement with the Bank of England. The London house merged with Alexanders, a discount house, in 1864, but a new London house, Brooks and Co., was opened at 81 Lombard Street by the sole partner in the Blackburn bank.
A new bank building in Manchester was opened in 1868 at nos. 46-48 Brown Street; the architect was George Truefitt
George Truefitt (1824–1902) was born in 1824 at St George's Hanover Square, London. He practiced architecture from age 15 (1839), when he began working with the British architect Lewis Cottingham, until his retirement in 1899.
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. At the corner where Brown Street meets Chancery Lane is a three-storey oriel with crisp carved ornament and on top an iron crown. In 1900, the bank merged with Lloyds Bank
Lloyds Bank plc is a British retail banking, retail and commercial bank with branches across England and Wales. It has traditionally been considered one of the "Big Four (banking), Big Four" clearing house (finance), clearing banks. Lloyds B ...
.Sayers, R. S. (1957) ''Lloyds Bank in the History of English Banking''. London: OUP
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; pp. 12, 14, 147, 281 and 331
References
Further reading
*"Brooks's Bank, Manchester" ''Manchester Faces and Places''; vol. 4, 1892–3, pp. 157–158, illus.External links
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