The Wetherspoons Hunter, Lloyd’s No.1 Bar, Episode 32

Situated at the top of Carlton Street, this site has been occupied for centuries. Mr Gregory’s house was built here in 1674, on the site of an even older mansion. In 1810, Ichabod Wright moved his bank into part of Mr Gregory’s mansion, where a new banking house was built in c1860. Wright’s Bank was absorbed by the Capital and Counties Bank, later taken over by Lloyds. The bank closed in 1995 and became the Lloyds No.1 bar.
The Goose Fair was originally held in the Market Place for 8 days of October, reduced to five days in 1876.It was first mentioned in the Nottingham Borough Records of 1541, though it was probably in existence much earlier than this.The fair grew and gradually spread to other streets around the Market and, with the growth of traffic, there were complaints about congestion and disruption in the city. Eventually, the Goose Fair was moved to the Forest Recreation Ground, about a mile north of the Old Market Square, where it is still held today.
Paper currency was first used over a thousand years ago in China. However, the idea was not taken up in the West until five hundred years later.
In England, loans were made by goldsmiths, whose vaults held coinage as well as bullion. They acted as bankers, issuing notes and cheques against deposits.
The Bank of England was founded in 1694. Its oldest known printed note for £555 is dated five years later.
Private banks such as Wrights Bank, which traded from premises on this site for most of the 19th century, also issued notes and cheques. The last private English bank to issue notes lost the right to do so In 1921, when it was taken over by Lloyds.
The Bank of Scotland, set up a year after the Bank of England, was the first to issue £1 notes, in 1704. Scots and Northern Irish banks issue notes, as the Bank of England's monopoly only covers England and Wales.
Several £1,000,000 Bank of England notes exist, but they were for internal use. £1,000 notes, the highest-value to be publicly circulated, were withdrawn in 1945, but over a hundred are still in private hands.
At the other end of the scale, the Bank also issued notes worth 8,000 times less. These half-crown (12.5p) notes, dating from 1941 are rare and valuable.
The building now occupied by this Lloyds No 1 bar was formerly the Carlton Street branch of Lloyds Bank. It opened in 1860 as the head office of Wright's Bank, which became part of Lloyds in 1918.
This bar was the first of J.D Wetherspoon’s highly successful Lloyds No 1 chain. It was name after this building, which is a former branch of Lloyds Bank
The bank was founded in Birmingham, in 1765 by John Taylor, a maker of buttons and japanned goods and a Quaker ironmonger, Sampson Lloyd II.
Taylor was described as “the Shakespeare or Newton of... the commercial hemisphere”. Starting as an ordinary worker, he went on to set up one of the city’s largest businesses with more than 500 employees.
For almost a century, Taylor & Lloyds operated from Birmingham, as a private bank. However, after the link with the Taylor family ended, the firm became a joint-stock bank, Lloyds Banking Company Limited.
The business relocated to London in the 1880s, having taken over a bank founded there in 1771 by the sons of the original partners. With this purchase, they also acquitted their famous black horse symbol.
Lloyds acquired this building in Carlton Street in 1918, when they took over the Capital and Counties Bank. This group had previously absorbed Wrights Bank, for whom these premises had been built in 1860 at a cost of £3,000.
A short stroll down Pelham Street from this
Lloyds No.1 Bar will bring you to Nottingham's imposing Council House. Probably the city's best known building, it has dominated the Market Square since the 1920s.
The Council House stands on the site of the Exchange, a red brick building erected in the 1720s, designed by Marmaduke Pennell, who was then Mayor of Nottingham. It is recalled by the Exchange Arcade and Exchange Walk.
The front of the Council House is famously guarded by stone lions designed by Joseph
Else, Principal of the city's School of Art, from 1923 until 1939. His name lives on in the
Wetherspoon's freehouse across the road from his lions.
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