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Between 1826 and 1830 the bank had two agents and five sub-agents (op. cit. below, p. 577). Alexander McGregor, the first agent, was succeeded in 1828 by John Reid. Despite the changes of staff by 1831 the Manchester bank was one of only two branches (the other being Birmingham) to have made sufficient profits to cover its expenses (op. cit. below, p. 565). A new building designed by C. R. Cockerell (1788-1863) was erected between 1845 and 1847 on a site adjacent to the former branch bank on King Street. This building still houses the Bank of England's agency for the north west and is listed grade I.
Literature:
W. Marston Acres, The Bank of England from Within, 1694-1900, Vol. II, 1931; English Heritage, British Listed Buildings: Bank of England Trustee Savings Bank, Manchester, <www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk>
Tom Drysdale, May 2013
Sir John Soane's collection includes some 30,000 architectural, design and topographical drawings which is a very important resource for scholars worldwide. His was the first architect’s collection to attempt to preserve the best in design for the architectural profession in the future, and it did so by assembling as exemplars surviving drawings by great Renaissance masters and by the leading architects in Britain in the 17th and 18th centuries and his near contemporaries such as Sir William Chambers, Robert Adam and George Dance the Younger. These drawings sit side by side with 9,000 drawings in Soane’s own hand or those of the pupils in his office, covering his early work as a student, his time in Italy and the drawings produced in the course of his architectural practice from 1780 until the 1830s.
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Contents of Manchester: Bank of England branch: survey plan of premises in Norfolk Street, survey plans and designs for alterations in two phases for premises at 35 King Street, 1826-1831 (123)
- Survey plan of semi-detached houses (considered unsuitable) in Norfolk Street
- Site plan of house in King Street
- Initial survey drawing of premises in King Street
- Variant designs for alterations to the ground floor (and basement), July 1826 (6)
- Further variant but more minimal designs for alterations, August 1826 (5)
- Survey drawings (2)
- Designs and working drawings for the first phase of alterations, September 1826 (5)
- Further working drawings for the first phase of alterations, September/October 1826 (10)
- Record drawings showing alterations made during the first phase of work in 1826 (2)
- Working drawing of 2 Designs for / Wrought Iron Frame & door for the Strong Rooms, March 1827
- Record drawing of alterations made to the ground floor, ordered 18 July 1827
- As built record drawings, October 1827 (4)
- Unexecuted design for alterations, July 1829
- Survey drawing, January 1830
- Unexecuted designs and variant designs for alterations, January 1830 (6)
- Unexecuted designs for alterations, January 1830 (3)
- Further unexecuted designs and variant designs for alterations, January/February 1830 (4)
- Design for alterations
- General Specification of Works to be done at / the Premises in King Street Manchester agreeably / to the Drawings subjoined and numbered from / 1 to 12
- Working drawing for alterations to the basement story (No. 1), April-May 1830
- Working drawings for alterations to the ground floor (No. 2), April-May 1830 (3)
- Working drawings for alterations to the one pair floor (No. 3), April-May 1830 (3)
- Working drawings for alterations to the back front and timbers over the ground floor of the rear buildings (No. 4), April-May 1830 (3)
- Working drawings for alterations to the roofs over the kitchen offices and stables (No. 5), April-May 1830 (4)
- Working drawings for alterations to the branch bank (No. 6), April-May 1830 (2)
- Working drawings for alterations to the branch bank (No. 7), April-May 1830 (3)
- Working drawings for alterations to the entrance to the bank (No. 8), April-May 1830
- Working drawings for alterations to the framing of the partitions and roof timbers (No. 9), April-May 1830 (2)
- Working drawings for door jambs, doors, frames and linings (No. 10), April-May 1830 (2)
- Working drawings for alterations to the stable door and coach house gates (No. 11), April-May 1830 (2)
- Working drawings for alterations to the sash frame, sashes and shutters in the agent's private room (No. 12), April-May 1830 (2)
- Working drawing for window frames, June 1830
- Working drawings, July 1830 (7)
- Working drawings, August 1830 (8)
- Working drawings, September 1830 (5)
- Working drawings, October 1830 (7)
- Working drawings, November 1830 (2)
- Working drawing, February 1831
- Design for the footman's pantry
- Working drawings, undated (3)
- Unidentified working drawings, undated (4)