Records of the Goldhawk Building Society

This collection comprises the records of Goldhawk Building Society and parent body the Goldhawk Mutual Benefit Building Society.It includes annual reports, board minute books, deed registers, borrowers ledgers, staff photographs, directors meeting register, advertising and marketing records, pass books and share certificates.

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

The Goldhawk Mutual Benefit Building Society began life in West London in 1876. For almost 100 years it remained a small, independent building society offering mortgage and savings accounts to a small customer base. It had one permanent office on Chiswick High Road by the 1930s. In 1967, it changed it simplified its name to the Goldhawk Building Society and in 1975 it merged with the London Investment Building Society to form the London Goldhawk. After various mergers and names changes it became part of Nationwide in 1987.