Birmingham Banking Company
The Birmingham Banking Company was a bank that operated in Birmingham, West Midlands from 1829 to 1889, and as The Metropolitan and Birmingham Bank from 1889 to 1892, the Metropolitan, Birmingham and South Wales Bank from 1892 to 1893, and the Metropolitan Bank (of England and Wales) from 1893 to 1914, when it was acquired by the Midland Bank.
The former Birmingham Banking Company building at the junction of Waterloo Street and Bennetts Hill
Branch built at the junction of Chapel Street and Ely Street, Stratford-upon-Avon in 1883 by Harris, Martin and Harris
Midland Bank Plc was one of the Big Four banking groups in the United Kingdom for most of the 20th century. It is now part of HSBC. The bank was founded as the Birmingham and Midland Bank in Union Street, Birmingham, England in August 1836. It expanded in the Midlands, absorbing many local banks, and merged with the Central Bank of London Ltd. in 1891, becoming the London City and Midland Bank.
Former head office at 27 Poultry, designed in 1924 by Edwin Lutyens and built in stages until 1939
Midland Bank's head office banking hall at 27 Poultry, built in the late 1920s
Former Threadneedle Street head office of The City Bank, which became London City and Midland Bank
The Lutyens-designed 100 King Street, Manchester
