Have you ever wondered why the Corn Exchange has the words Savings Bank emblazoned on the one end of the building?  Well it’s all to do with the Lichfield Saving Bank. The bank was established in 1818 and originally operated in Frog Lane in the National school, taking deposits every Friday. By 1827 it had over 700 local individuals and 6 friendly societies as depositors. 

As the bank continued to grow new premises were built in 1849 at the corner of Bore Street and Conduit Street intergraded in to the new Corn Exchange, hence the brickwork. Unfortunately the bank closed in 1880 but at least a small part of it remains to this today.