Wood Green HSBC closed

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Permalink Reply by matt on June 1, 2017 at 9:27

Almost never visit my high st branch of my bank ... all online, so I don't think this is too surprising Andy

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Permalink Reply by Andy on June 1, 2017 at 18:19

Very true, although Barclays and Halifax always seem mega-busy..

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Permalink Reply by L F T Snowflake on June 1, 2017 at 10:33

Probably end up a coffee shop or another pointless tat shop, like so many on WGHS. 

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Permalink Reply by Gordon T on June 1, 2017 at 11:01

It had an illustrious past -- 

http://www.arthurlloyd.co.uk/WoodGreenEmpire.htm

Also -- http://www.harringayonline.com/photo/photo/listTagged?tag=Wood+Gree...

From  http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/32746

The auditorium of the Wood Green Empire Theatre was demolished in the mid-1960’s, and a Sainsbury[*] supermarket was built on the site with its entrance on Lymington Avenue, where the rear of the theatre once stood (the stage and dressing rooms were on Dovecote Avenue).

The entrance building to the theatre on the High Road, survives as a branch of the Halifax Bank PLC, minus the dome on top. The Cheapside parade of shops also survives intact.

[*] not the current Sainsbury, but what is now Matalan - gives some idea of the size of it.

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Permalink Reply by L F T Snowflake on June 1, 2017 at 11:05

an illustrious past and a lackluster present. 

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Permalink Reply by Bob Lindsay-Smith on June 2, 2017 at 22:46

I know people in a small organisation with an HSBC business account. They have been frustrated by its procedures. I looked at the UK HSBC website and compared it to the Hong Kong one.  It seemed that the latter carries far more information.

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