In 1995, the Cheltenham and Gloucester Building Society accepted a purchase offer from Lloyds Bank. For the deal to go ahead though, the Society had to demutualise. Its members voted overwhelmingly in favour of the change. The resulting...

Husband and wife team Emma and Steve established ES Jewellery in 2004 and opened in Lichfield after the closure of Julian Graves.

For many years this address was the home to the Building Societies Town & Country and the Woolwich. In 2000 the Woolwich was acquired by Barclays Bank and six years later in June 2006, Barclays announced that The Woolwich was to become...