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From: Alison Bryan <>
Subject: Re: Where in Aber was the National Provincial Bank?
Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2005 08:57:16 +0100
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Hi David

Thanks for so much info on the NPB in Aber, plus the photos. Wow. I
just looked at it, wondering whose ancestors were on there. It seems
that NPB built the building where the current Nat West bank is?

The Thomas Richards saga happened in 1897, therefore I'm assuming that
the location of the bank by that time must have been in Pier St /
Eastgate. Makes sense for him to disappear off to the Royal Oak (ie
get there drunk) with his newly acquired stash of cash, and drink some
more before going to Neath.

I thought I was researching genealogy not piecing together a crime trail ....

Alison





On 6/26/05, David Rowlands <> wrote:
> Alison
>
> Further to the matter of the location of the National Provincial Bank
> in Aberystwyth. It changed ...
>
> It seems (from W J Lewis, 1980, 'Born on a Perilous Rock' (BOAPR),
> 3rd ed., published by the Cambrian News, pp. 142-3) that the NPB
> moved to the premises at the junction of Baker St and the bottom of
> Great Darkgate Street in 1903, where the new building was erected on
> the site of the first houses built outside the town wall, in 1797!
>
> The first branch of the NPV was opened in 1835. BOAPR says the first
> premises were on the first floor in Great Darkgate St 'on the site
> now occupied by Hodges'. After a few years it moved to 'a large
> house, owned by the Richardes of Penglais, at the corner of Eastgate
> and Pier St (apparently the handsome doorway may still be seen in
> Eastgate -- entrance to the St David's Club, according to BOAPR). In
> fact, I now find that it is marked on the map I sent you off-list of
> part of Aber in the 1880s (the words are written in the middle of
> Pier Street). Incidentally, Eastgate was then 'Little Darkgate St'.
>
> I presume, from this source, that there were no other moves so it was
> there from circa 1840 to 1903, which I think must cover the period
> you have in mind. The photo I referred to in an earlier email must
> have been taken circa 1910. BOAPR has a photo of it as the 'National
> Westminster Bank', of course.
>
> David
> Canberra
>
>
> On 20/06/2005, at 8:18 AM, Alison Bryan wrote:
> >
> > Where was the National Provincial Bank in Aberystwyth? Anyone know?
> >
>

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