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The National Provincial was the first bank to be considered a truly national bank with twenty branches across England and Wales. In 1844 the government introduced the Bank Charter Act 1844 ( 7 & 8 Vict. c. 32) to regulate the issuing of bank notes.
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Collage for banknote design, Bank of Manchester (England), 1833. On display at the British Museum in London. Manchester's first bank was the Manchester Bank of Byrom, Allen, Sedgwick and Place on Bank Street in 1771. [1] Over the next century many new banks were founded. They built impressive buildings in the city.
The Manchester and Liverpool District Bank was formed in 1829 and it became one of the leading provincial joint stock banks; its name was shortened to District Bank in 1924. The Bank was acquired by the National Provincial Bank in 1962 but kept its identity until the latter’s merger with Westminster Bank .
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Byrom, Allen, Sedgwick and Place, also known as the Manchester Bank, was the first bank to be established in Manchester, England. It was founded on 2 December 1771 in Bank Street. [1] The founders were Edward Byrom, William Allen, Roger Sedgwick, and Edward Place. Place left the bank after a few months to take up other business interests.
A Williams Deacon's Bank building in Chapel-en-le-Frith. Williams Deacon's Bank was acquired by the Royal Bank of Scotland in 1930. [1] It had a large network of branches in the north-west of England. In 1970, it was integrated with Glyn, Mills & Co. and The National Bank (which were part of the same group) to form Williams & Glyn's Bank. [2]
Director General of Fair Trading v First National Bank plc [2001] UKHL 52 is the leading case on the Unfair Terms in Consumer Contracts Regulations 1999.It was an action to test the fairness of clauses in loan agreements which secured a bank's commercial interest rates after a debtor that had defaulted and they had been to court to determine their repayment scheme.