London & County Joint Stock Bank... Liverpool. Liverpool. Liverpool. London (Head Office). BranchesArundel; Ashford; Aylesbury; Bishop Stortford; Braintree; Brighton; Canterbury; Chatham; Chelmsford; Chichester; Cranbrook; Croydon; Dorking; Dover; Gravesend Greenwich; Halstead; Hertford; Horsham; Leighton Buzzard; Lewes ; Luton; Maidstone; Maldon; Newport; Pagnell; Oxford; Petersfield; Romford; Sandwich; Seven Oaks; Stoney Stratford; Tunbridge; Tunbridge Wells; Ware ; Witney; Woolwich. Princes Street (Head Office). Branch-69, Pall Mall, London. Lothbury (Head Office); Waterloo Manchester. Head Bank at Manchester; Liverpool; Stockport; Oldham; Hanley; Nantwich Ashton-under-Line; Warrington; Bury; Blackburn; Stafford; Wigan; Preston; Stalybridge; Rochdale. Sub-branches connected with Hanley Leek, Cheadle, Burslem; with Nantwich: Market Drayton; with Ashton: Hyde, Glossop; with Rochdale: Todmorden. Newport; Abergavenny; Monmouth; Chepstow; Pontipool; Swansea; Tredegar; Usk. Nottingham. Namptwich. Name of Bank. Where situate. London* (Head Office). BranchesAberystwith; Amlwch; Bangor; Barnstable: Bath; Bideford; Birmingham: Blandford; Boston: Brecon; Bristol; Bury St. Edmonds; Cardiff; Cheltenham; Darlington; Dartmouth; Deal; Devonport; Dolgelly Dover; Dursley; Exeter; Gloucester; Hereford; Holywell; Honiton ; Ilfracombe; Ipswich; Leicester; Leominster; Lichfield; Manchester; Newport, Isle of Wight; Newport (Salop); Newtown; Northwich; Peterborough Plymouth; Portsea; Portsmouth; Pwllheli; Ramsgate; Rugby; Rugeley; Shrewsbury: Sherborne; South Molton; Southampton; Stockton; Tamworth; Tiverton; Torrington; Totnes; Wem; Whitchurch; Wimborne ; Wisbech; Worcester; Wottonunder-Edge; Yarmouth. Sub-BranchesBala; Barnard Castle: Bridgend; Bromyard Chipping Sodbury; Cowbridge; Croyland; Denbigh; Folkestone; Halesworth; Hartlepool; Hay: Llangefri; Ledbury Long Sutton; Lowestoft; March; Machynlleth; Mold; Oakhampton; Poole; Portmadoc; Ramsey; Ryde, Isle of Wight; Sandwich; Spalding: Stokesley; Sturminster; Teignmouth; Wareham; Whittlesea; Woodbridge. Newcastle-on-Tyne. Newcastle-upon-Tyne; Alnwick; Hexham; Morpeth; North Shields; Sunderland; Durham; South Shields. Liverpool (Head Office). BranchesAberystwith; Bangor; Bishop's Castle; Canarvon; Chester; Denbigh; Dolgelly; Festiniog; Holyhead; Holywell; Llangefri Llanwrst; Mould; Newtown; Oswestry: Portmadoc; Pwllheli; Ruthin; Welshpool; Wrexham. Melksham (Head Office). Devizes; Trowbridge; Calne; Chippenham; Bradford; Malmesbury; Marlborough; Swindon; Westbury; Wootten Basset. Nottingham; Newark; Mansfield; Worksop; East Retford; Loughborough. Oldham. Management only; ordinary banking business in London commenced in 1866. Leicester (Head Office). Branches Hinckley: Loughborough; Lutterworth; Market Harborough; Melton Mowbray. Portsmouth. Saddleworth; Ashton-under-Lyne ; Sheffield and Rotherham. Shiffnall; Wellington; Colebrook-Dale. Manchester. Newport ; Stamford; Boston; Bourne ; Crowland; Market Deeping; Melton Mowbray; Oakham Oundle; Peterborough; Spalding; Spilsly; Uppingham; Wainfleet. Kidderminster; Stratford-on-Avon; Sunderland. Richmond; Layburn; Bedale; Hawes; Huddersfield; Mirfield; Wakefiel Whitchurch and Ellesmere. Warwick; Leamington; Henley-in- Bristol; Bath; Barnstaple; Bridge- Whitehaven and Penrith. The development of Banking in England and Wales in the 50 years, 1844– 1894, is conveniently seen in the following table, which especially shows the great increase in the number of branches : RECENT PARLIAMENTARY REPORTS. 1. Report of the Select Committee on Weights and Measures. THIS Report, the text of which is given below, though not directly dealing with banking, is yet of the utmost importance for it is obvious, that were the recommendations of the Committee carried out by Parliament, the adoption of the decimal system of currency might not long be delayed. The consideration of this latter subject was not indeed within the scope of the enquiry, but of course references to it were made by several of the witnesses examined by the Committee. THE SELECT COMMITTEE appointed to inquire whether any and what changes in the present system of Weights and Measures should be adopted :-HAVE considered the matters to them referred, and have agreed to the following REPORT: THEY have in the first place received evidence from witnesses representing many different interests, (1) official; (2) commercial; (3) manufacturing; (4) trade; (5) educational; (6) professional. They have also received from numerous corporations, school boards, and other public bodies, resolutions without exception in favour of the adoption of the metrical system. Your Committee find that, almost all the witnesses express a strong opinion as to the complicated and unsatisfactory condition of our present weights and measures, and of the distinct and serious drawback to our commerce, especially our foreign trade, which this system entails, differing as it does from the system (metrical) now adopted by every European nation except ourselves and Russia, as well as by far the majority of non-European countries with which this kingdom trades. The evidence, however, goes further to show that not only is our foreign trade, in every branch, seriously handicapped, but that the home trade would be benefited if more simple and uniform standards of weights and measures than those now existing were adopted. Moreover strong evidence was brought forward as to the serious loss of time incurred by English school children in having to learn the complicated system of tables of existing weights and measures, and the urgent need of the adoption of a simpler system. It was stated that no less than one year's school time would be saved if the metrical system were taught in place of that now in use. Evidence from competent witnesses proved to the satisfaction of your Committee that a compulsory change from an old and complicated system to the metrical had taken place in Germany, Norway, and Sweden, Switzerland, Italy, and many other European countries without serious opposition or inconvenience. That this change was carried out in a comparatively short period, and that as soon as the simple character of the new system was understood, it was appreciated by all classes of the population, and no attempt to use the old units or to return to the old system was made. In the United States, where a system founded on the English units exists, a Commission is at present engaged in an investigation of the same character as that with which your Committee is charged, and the Federal Government has this year passed an Act rendering the metrical system compulsory for pharmaceutical purposes. Your Committee believes that the adoption of the metrical system by England would greatly tend to render that system universal. Your Committee recommend: (a.) That the metrical system of weights and measures be at once legalised for all purposes. |