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 Str
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
Poultry is a short street in the City of London, which is the historic nucleus and financial centre of modern London. It is an eastern continuation of Cheapside, between Old Jewry and Mansion House St
Midland Bank
…albeit with "Midland Bank plc" still featuring on the plaque near the entrance. The last head office of Midland Bank, opposite the Bank of England in Poultry and Princes Street, was sold in October 2006 to a tycoon from Russia, with HSBC vacating the banking hall on the ground floor and huge underground…
Looking east down Poultry toward Bank junction in 2009