Yorkshire Penny Bank - Bradford, UK
Posted by: dtrebilc
N 53° 47.864 W 001° 45.408
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An old bank with a fine frieze above the doorway, including 4 heads of people from the early days of the bank.
Waymark Code: WMAJ9A
Location: Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 01/20/2011
Views: 6
The Yorkshire Penny Bank originally started in 1859 in Halifax, Yorkshire as a Friendly Society called the West Riding Penny Savings Bank. (Yorkshire used to be split into 3 administrative areas called Ridings). After expansion into other parts of Yorkshire it changed its name to the Yorkshire Penny Bank. At the same time it became the first bank to create school banks to encourage saving from an early age.
In 1911 it was deemed that it did not have enough reserves to be fully solvent and was taken over by a consortium of other banks, and became a limited company.
This building was built in 1895, when both the bank and Bradford were probably at their height. The architect was James Ledingham and the frieze over the door has 4 Carved faces:
Colonel Edward Ackroyd (1810-1877) , Halifax worsted manufacturer
Henry Ripley (1813-1882, founder of a dyeworks
Peter Bent, General manager
John Ward, Director from 1873 to 1880
This building is a grade II listed building, was a pub for a while, but currently it is unused.
Address: 40 North Parade
Bradford
West Yorkshire
BD1 3HZ
Artist: Not listed
Web URL to relevant information: Not listed
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