Featured Large framed photo of a bank interior - interesting!

Looks like the bank version of Are You Being Served.

 

I wasn't intending to post to this thread, but was reading the new messages and accidentally hit "Reply." I'm glad the photo will be featured online!

 

Welcome to the forum, Jonathan, and thanks for your update! I'm delighted the photograph has been identified and so much information can be gleaned from it.

It's a couple of years since I first started this thread and until this week I'd still been puzzling about the identity of this bank. So I caved in and removed the photo from the frame hoping to find some useful clues... but the photograph is firmly stuck to a hard piece of card, and there's no writing at all. It allowed me to scan the photo properly though, and google image search worked a minor miracle (for a change, lol). Which is how I found the 'Manchester City Office' at Martins Bank Archive .

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Jonathan tells me it dates to the mid 1960s. And the scales were used to weigh bags of coins.

The building is now a restaurant and I might just have to pay a visit some time ;-).

 

If you visit, take a photo and post it on this thread so we can see the changes!