Yorkshire Penny Bank - Bradford, UK - Converted Bank Buildings on Waymarking.com

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.

In 1959, its centenary year Yorkshire Penny Bank changed its name to the Yorkshire Bank. In 1990 the Yorkshire bank was taken over by the National Australia Bank.

This building was built in 1895, Architect - James Ledingham and the relief 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

Address: 40 North Parade Bradford United Kingdom BD1 3HZ Year: 1895 Current Use of Building: Used to be a pub but is now closed. Website: Not listed

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Date Logged Log   01/22/2013 His 'n' Hers visited it