A brick built bank in the Victorian Gothic style

Trojan · Post by **Trojan** » Tue 22 Dec, 2009 10:16 pm

uncle mick wrote: Phone Books 1955Martins Bank30 Park Row???????Michael That could be the one.

uncle mick · Post by **uncle mick** » Tue 22 Dec, 2009 10:20 pm

http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1394854But this appears to have been built circa 1920's.The first time I have done a link,thanks to my Grandaughter

sirjohn · Post by **sirjohn** » Tue 22 Dec, 2009 11:23 pm

I used to bank at that branch of wetherspoons. Until one day I went to pay a cheque in and it had turned in to a trendy wine bar overnight!

sirjohn · Post by **sirjohn** » Tue 22 Dec, 2009 11:28 pm

but I wouldn't call it gothic...is this the one you were thinking of?http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1394880

Trojan · Post by **Trojan** » Wed 23 Dec, 2009 12:14 am

uncle mick wrote: http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1394854But this appears to have been built circa 1920's.The first time I have done a link,thanks to my Grandaughter That's not it. I'm obviously wrong again.

Trojan · Post by **Trojan** » Wed 23 Dec, 2009 12:15 am

sirjohn wrote: but I wouldn't call it gothic...is this the one you were thinking of?http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1394880 not it was definitely a bank, and only two storeys. And it was knocked down in the sixties.

LS1 · Post by **LS1** » Wed 23 Dec, 2009 9:13 am

I think its the one that features on the Atkinson Grimshaw Painting on Park Row. This is not number 30 though as 30 is on the opposite side, to the left side of Wetherspoons (Wetherspoons is 28-30)Park Row starts at 1 on the Mill Hill Chapel side, goes up to the Headrow and then goes back down to City Square consecutively See attached pic, is this the one you are thinking of?

LS1 · Post by **LS1** » Wed 23 Dec, 2009 9:29 am

This is the old Becketts bank (thanks Leodis). Is this the one that you are thinking of?

Trojan · Post by **Trojan** » Wed 23 Dec, 2009 9:30 am

LS1 wrote: I think its the one that features on the Atkinson Grimshaw Painting on Park Row. This is not number 30 though as 30 is on the opposite side, to the left side of Wetherspoons (Wetherspoons is 28-30)Park Row starts at 1 on the Mill Hill Chapel side, goes up to the Headrow and then goes back down to City Square consecutively See attached pic, is this the one you are thinking of? Could be, but memories play tricks - after all its more than forty years since. I seem to remember it having pinnacles etc. and also being set back from the road, with a level below the pavement and railings. Marshall & Snelgrove on the corner of the Headrow had a similar type basement area with railings.

LS1 · Post by **LS1** » Wed 23 Dec, 2009 9:58 am

Must be playing tricks Trojan, Marshall and Snelgrove was at the corner of Bond Street where Lloyds Bank is now.