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A High Street bank celebrated 200 years of banking in Thrapston with a competition for a local primary school.
Barclays Bank at 41 High Street marked the occasion with a celebratory event for its customers. Thrapston Primary School asked its pupils from reception up to year 4, to design their own bank note which could be linked to something topical like the Olympics or could reflect what a bank note would have looked like 200 years ago.
The winners of the competition were announced (pictured) and given sports bags complete with sporting goodies. The overall winner of the competition was George Seporovic who received a digital camera. Local MP Louise Mensch who chose the winner commented: “It was a great privilege to be invited to come and judge the bank note competition celebrating 200 years of banking in Thrapston. All the children’s entries into the competition were marvellous and it was great to see the primary school involved in the celebrations. My thanks go to Barclays for organising the event and for providing a much needed local banking service Thrapston.”
Barclays Thrapston originated as a new country bank established by Stephen Eaton and his partner George Eland. It has provided local banking services on the same site for at least two centuries, and although 1812 is usually given as the date of foundation, a lease of 1822 says that Eland had ‘for many years carried on the businesses of banker and linen draper’. Certainly Eland was carrying on his line drapery in the premises from at least 1783; later deeds describe it as linen drapery and bank, and then just a banking house.
In 1888 an offer was made by the Stamford, Spalding and Boston Banking Company to pay creditors and take over the branches at Thrapston and Kettering. The SS&B was a successful joint stock banking business that had grown steadily since its establishment in 1832, taking over a number of small local banks in the process.
In 1911 the Stamford, Spalding and Boston Bank was acquired by Barclays, since when Thrapston has been a Barclays branch.