Step back in time with our ‘Then and Now’ feature, where vintage postcards from the Barry Cuff Collection meet modern-day reality. Explore the past and present on the same page, and see the evolution of familiar local places. ‘Now’ images by Courtenay Hitchcock
The bank, above, is Grade II Listed, built in 1900 to the designs of Sir George Oatley for the Stuckey Banking Company Ltd, a major West Country bank which at one time had a banknote circulation second only to the Bank of England. Stuckey’s was acquired by Parr’s Bank in 1909, which merged in 1919 with London County & Westminster Bank.
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