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Lloyds Bank plc [1] [4] is a major British retail and commercial bank with a significant presence across England and Wales. It has traditionally been regarded one of the "Big Four" clearing banks. [5] Established in Birmingham in 1765
The remainder of the Lloyds TSB business would be rebranded as Lloyds Bank. [61] Lloyds Banking Group reached a Heads of Terms agreement in July 2012 to sell the Verde branches to The Co-operative Bank for £750 million. [62] [63] The final transfer of TSB Bank plc to the new owner was due to be completed by late 2013.
The first Lloyd's building (address 12 Leadenhall Street) had been built on this site in 1928 to the design of Sir Edwin Cooper. [5] In 1958, due to expansion of the market, a new building was constructed across the road at 51 Lime Street (now the site of the Willis Building). Lloyd's now occupied the Heysham Building and the Cooper Building.
The Baker Street robbery was the burglary of safety deposit boxes at the Baker Street branch of Lloyds Bank in London, on the night of 11 September 1971. A gang tunnelled 40 feet (12 m) from a rented shop two doors away to come up through the floor of the vault.
Nipper died of natural causes in 1895 and was buried in Kingston upon Thames at Clarence Street, in a small park surrounded by magnolia trees. As time progressed, the area was built upon, and a branch of Lloyds Bank now occupies the site. On the wall of the bank, just inside the entrance, a brass plaque commemorates the site as Nipper's resting ...
The former Lloyds Bank International (LBI), both directly and through its banking subsidiaries, BOLSA and BOLAM, [4] together with the National Bank of New Zealand, Lloyds Bank California and the colonial and foreign (later overseas) department of Lloyds Bank, was responsible for the international and foreign banking business of the Lloyds Bank ...
Craig's Court (centre) on an 1895 Ordnance Survey map [1] The narrow entrance to Craig's Court Walkers of Whitehall when it was Walkers Wine and Ale Bar. Craig's Court is a courtyard off Whitehall in central London containing the grade II* listed Harrington House (c.1692), other listed buildings, and the British Telecom Whitehall telephone exchange of which Harrington House forms a part.
1095 Avenue of the Americas is a 630-foot-tall (190 m) skyscraper in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City.It was constructed from 1971 to 1973 to be the headquarters of New York Telephone Company and has 41 floors. [1]