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DESCRIPTION OF THE NEW PLYMOUTH BRANCH
On Monday December 24th 1888 the Three Towns' Banking Company opened a new branch building on the corner of Old Town Street and Drake Street in Plymouth. Number 32 Old Town Street had formerly been the Lord Exmouth Inn and had been adapted for its new purpose by Mr Thomas Andrew Bearhop Kennedy, of Glanville Street, Plymouth. Entered at the corner of the building through plate-glass doors, the floor of the banking hall was covered with "herring bone" oak. A flight of pitch pine stairs led down to the strong room. The ceiling of the strong room and the floor of the banking hall were of Portland cement concrete supported on iron girders. The room was lit by means of Hayward's semi-prismatic pavement lights and it was protected by a Chubb fire and thief-proof door with diagonal bolts. A separate entrance in Drake Street led into a commodious bank parlour. Sources:
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