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History. 1892 Straits Settlements stamp. A postal service had been available in Singapore since the contemporary city was founded by Stamford Raffles in 1819. Postal services were first directly organised in Singapore in 1826, and from 1829 rectangular postmarks began to be used on local correspondence.
Union Bank of Scotland. Headquarters. Glasgow. , Scotland. The Old Ship Bank public house, today. The Ship Bank or more usually Old Ship Bank was an independent bank formed in Glasgow in 1750 becoming Glasgow's first bank. The bank was merged in 1836 and in 1843 the name disappeared altogether, simply becoming the Union Bank of Scotland.
Airdrie Savings Bank. British Linen Bank. City of Glasgow Bank. Commercial Bank of Scotland. Douglas, Heron & Company. Glasgow and Ship Bank. Leith Banking Company. National Bank of Scotland. National Commercial Bank of Scotland.
The classically designed former Chief Office of the Royal Bank of Scotland stands at the western end of the square. [13] There are shops and offices, and numerous open air cafés and restaurants. Home to Glasgow's only restaurant with a rooftop terrace, 29 Glasgow is a Members Club with a publicly accessible reataurant and function room.
In 1847, the (octagonal) 1 shilling (£0.05) became the first of the British embossed postage stamps to be issued, followed by 10d stamps the following year, and 6d (£0.025) values in 1854. Surface-printed stamps first appeared in the form of a 4d stamp in 1855, printed by De La Rue, and subsequently became the standard type.
Scotland. Glasgow. 55°52′47″N 4°21′06″W / 55.879651°N 4.351549°W / 55.879651; -4.351549. Scotstoun (Scottish Gaelic: Baile an Sgotaich) is an area of Glasgow, Scotland, west of Glasgow City Centre. It is bounded by Garscadden and Yoker to the west, Victoria Park, Jordanhill and Whiteinch to the east, Jordanhill to the ...
Blythswood Hill, crowned by Blythswood Square, is an area of central Glasgow, Scotland. Its grid of streets extend from the length of the west side of Buchanan Street to Gordon Street and Bothwell Street, and to Charing Cross, Sauchiehall Street and Garnethill. Developed from 1800 onwards, its Georgian and Victorian architecture is a ...
National Savings and Investments (NS&I), formerly called the Post Office Savings Bank and National Savings, is a state-owned savings bank in the United Kingdom. It is both a non-ministerial government department [1] and an executive agency of HM Treasury. [2] The aim of NS&I has been to attract funds from individual savers in the UK for the ...