Records of the Sussex Mutual Permanent Investment Building Society/Sussex Mutual...

This collection contains the records of the Sussex Mutual Building Society. The collection includes a set of annual reports from the 1890s to the 1980s; the rules of the society; a deposit/share certificate book from the 1930s; staff handbooks; marketing material; merger record; a small collection of branch and head office photographs and some artefacts.

The majority of records are open for viewing. More modern records are subject to restrictions

The Sussex Mutual Permanent Benefit Building Society set up in Brighton in 1872. In 1877 it changed its name to the Sussex Mutual Permanent Investment Building Society and its registered office to West Street in Brighton. By the 1890s, the business had moved to North Street which was the rapidly growing business centre of the town. Between the 1890s and the 1950s the Horton Ledger family were closely associated with the building society with a father being succeeded by his son in the post of society secretary. In the mid-1950s, the business moved its head office to Western Road in Hove and changed its name to the Sussex Mutual. The late twentieth century was a period of amalgamations in the building society sector: the Sussex Mutual became part of the Regency Building Society in 1985, which then became part of the Portman Building Society. In 2007, the Portman merged with Nationwide Building Society.