Westminster Bank Westminster Bank Westminster Bank was a British retail bank which operated in England and Wales from 1834 until its merger into the National Westminster Bank in 1970; it continued to exist as a dormant registered non-trading company until 4 July 2017 when it was dissolved Considered one of the Big Five, it expanded during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and took over a number of smaller banking companies. In 1834, the London and Westminster Bank was the first firm founded under the auspices of the Bank Charter Act 1833, which allowed joint-stock banks to be established in the capital. For
Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Bank Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Bank The Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Bank was a joint stock bank which operated from its headquarters in Nottingham from 1834 to 1919. It was established in Nottingham as the Nottingham & Nottinghamshire Banking Company. The initial capital was £500,000 (). The bank began trading in Pelham Street on 19 April 1834 under the management of Peter Watt, a Scottish banker. By the 1840s the bank's London agents were the London and Westminster Bank. In 1841 the bank ran into difficulty but shareholders injected money and it survived. A new head office building was constructed in Nottingham on