The Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Bank was a joint stock bank which operated from its headquarters in

Nottingham Nottingham ( , East Midlands English, locally ) is a city status in the United Kingdom, city and Unitary authorities of England, unitary authority area in Nottinghamshire, East Midlands, England. It is located north-west of London, south-east ...

from 1834 to 1919.

History

It was established in Nottingham as the Nottingham & Nottinghamshire Banking Company. The initial capital was £500,000 (). The bank began trading in Pelham Street in central Nottingham on 19 April 1834 under the management of Peter Watt, a Scottish banker. By the 1840s the bank's London agents were the

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. In 1841 the bank ran into difficulty but shareholders injected money and it survived. A new head office building was constructed in Nottingham on Thurland Street in 1881. It was built to the designs of the architect

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. In 1884 the bank assumed limited liability as Nottingham & Nottinghamshire Banking Co Ltd with a capital of £1.3 million (). In 1891 the bank suffered an embarrassment when it was revealed that the manager of the Newark branch, Robert James Beard, had defrauded the bank of £25,000 () before drowning himself in the River Trent. The bank covered the loss from its reserves. It was acquired by the London, County, Westminster & Parr's Bank in 1919.

Branches

The bank opened around 39 branches and sub-branches. In 1919, 20 branches and 18 sub-branches were operating. The following were the locations of the branches:

References

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