Sheffield Banking Co
From Graces Guide
1831 Established in Sheffield as Sheffield Banking Co.
Branches were opened in Rotherham (1834) and Chesterfield (1865). The firm issued banknotes from 1831 until 1905.
1843 The bank acquired most of the business of Parker, Shore & Co (est. 1770), bankers of Sheffield, when that firm failed in 1843 and the Chesterfield branch of James & Charles Robinson & Co, bankers of Mansfield, in 1870.
1873 The bank was registered as an unlimited company
1880 Assumed limited liability as Sheffield Banking Co Ltd with an increased capital of £1 million.
Further branches were opened.
1919 Absorbed by National Provincial and Union Bank of England
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Sources of Information
- [1] Nat West Heritage