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Records of the National Girobank and Predecessors

Catalogue reference: GIRO

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GIRO

Records of Girobank plc and its predecessors relating to the provision of a full range of banking services to both the personal and business sectors of the United Kingdom. The records are held by the Santander Group Archives.

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Reference

GIRO

Title
Records of the National Girobank and Predecessors
Date

1871-1981

Description

Records of Girobank plc and its predecessors relating to the provision of a full range of banking services to both the personal and business sectors of the United Kingdom.

The records are held by the Santander Group Archives.

Related material

The Postal Museum archives holds some records relating to the National Giro and its successors.

Access conditions

No records held at The National Archives in this departmental code

Subjects
Topics
Banking
Custodial history

Most records were transferred to the Public Record Office from the Post Office between 1968 and 1970; some files relating purely to the Giro were transferred to Girobank plc from the Post Office from 1990. The records were subsequently transferred to the National Girobank in 1978, to Girobank plc in 1985, to the Alliance and Leicester Building Society in 1990, and to Santander Group Archives in 2010.

Administrative / biographical background
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C139/

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