Whilst waiting at a traffic lights at the junction of Queens Rd, I noticed the building on the corner opposite had 'Sheffield Bank - Heeley Branch' carved into the stonework high above. (I think it may have been on the corner of Guernsey Rd)

I never knew Sheffield once had it's own bank - when did it close?

Or did it get taken over, and by which bank?

The bank you mention is it a hi-fi shop? if so it was a TSB bank, i think it closed at least 10 years ago.

The bank you mention is it a hi-fi shop? if so it was a TSB bank, i think it closed at least 10 years ago.
Yes the shop is sevenoaks HiFi. I wonder if TSB bought out Sheffield Bank?

They may well have taken over the bank, there were no less than four banks on heeley bottom in the 70s when i lived in the area. As kids we would climb up and peep through the side windows of the TSB and watch all that lovely lolly being counted. There was also banks in Sheffield called Martins, anyone remember them?.

Whilst waiting at a traffic lights at the junction of Queens Rd, I noticed the building on the corner opposite had 'Sheffield Bank - Heeley Branch' carved into the stonework high above. (I think it may have been on the corner of Guernsey Rd)

I never knew Sheffield once had it's own bank - when did it close?

Or did it get taken over, and by which bank?

If you go on to http://www.picturesheffield.com/database_search.php
you will find 110 photos of banks some being Sheffield and Rotherham Stock
Sheffield savings and many others.Whith the exception of the one you are enquiring about.

There was also Williams Deacons and the Yorkshire Penny Bank (now Yorkshire Bank)

TSB was called Sheffield Savings Bank which I joined when I was 19 at the bank on Norfolk St. I only joined because I fancied Brian Ashton who worked there. This must have been in 1955. When I started work in 1952 I earned about £8 a mth.
By the time I was married I earned about £30 a month and saved in Sheffiield Savings Bank. Can't remember when they changed the name to TSB
I was in the bank about 40 yrs when after a dissagreement I changed to Nat West, the manager cut up my card before my very eyes, wth a smile.
hazel

Sheffield Bank was established some time before 1773, probably by banker Thomas Broadbank whose business crashed in 1780.

In 1773 Broadbank built Page Hall, the first great house to be built in Sheffield from the money he made in Sheffield.

Page Hall was acquired by George Bustard Greaves in 1786. Greaves was a cousin of snuff-maker Joseph Wilson (Bottom Mill) at Sharrow.