The Bellshill branch of Airdrie Savings Bank, the UK's last independent savings bank, which closed in 2017 after 182 years' trading.

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Airdrie Savings Bank was one of many independent savings banks which opened in the 19th century to provide banking facilities to people without wealth, but who had a little spare money to save. Most of these banks merged into the Trustee Savings Bank but ASB remained independent. It survived the 2008 banking crash but its (unpaid) trustees decided a small bank could not compete in the present day and age so decided to close it. It was always solvent.

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Location: Main Street, Bellshill Lanarkshire, Scotland UK
Photo credit: © Dallas Carter / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

Keywords: -2017, 1835, airdrie, bank, banking, bellshill, closed, finance, independent, lanarkshire, money, savings, scotland