Belfast Banking Company

The Belfast Banking Company operated primarily in Ulster and sold its branches in other provinces following the formation of the Irish Free State.

[2] Seventeen bank staff were killed while serving with the British armed forces in the First World War and are commemorated in a memorial window at St Anne's Cathedral in Belfast.

[2] In 1927 staff raised £500 to name, in perpetuity, a bed at the Royal Victoria Hospital after the bank to mark its centenary.

[2] This process was complicated as both banks were note-issuing entities and if a third company was created, as would be usual practice, it would not hold the same powers.

The bank asked that its staff wear red carnations to mark a "happy and memorable day".

The Assembly Rooms, Belfast which housed a branch of the bank from 1845. [ 1 ]
Bank name from above the Assembly Rooms main entrance
£ 2 note of the New York Branch, printed by the American Banknote Co.