Banking is increasingly cashless and reserved to an app on your phone, but at one point Liverpool’s banking institutions shaped some of the city’s most famous streets.
Liverpool’s port expanded dramatically in the 18th and 19th centuries and with it brought huge amounts of trade. Such was the amount of wealth being created, a large number of banks and building societies set up shop in what was once the financial centre of Liverpool - and arguably the strongest outside of London.
Castle Street takes its name from being home to Liverpool’s no-longer standing castle, but the collection of the roads around the area are perhaps more synonymous with banking and finance. The levels of money passing through the area led to the formation of one of the densest clusters of listed buildings across the city - with Liverpool only second to London for its total number of protected structures.
