Eagle Star Insurance

It underwrote the full range of risks including liability, fire, accident, marine, motor, life, contingency and Pluvius (weather) insurance.

[2] For many years its Head Office was at the prestigious address 1 Threadneedle Street, London EC2.

However, a new administrative head office and computer centre was opened in Cheltenham in October 1968.

[2] It continued to trade, under the Eagle Star name, until acquisition by Zurich Financial Services in 1999.

[4] In the 1980s, the company supported the Nature Conservatory and the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds in the successful reintroduction of sea eagles to Scotland.

Former Eagle Star building on The Headrow in Leeds .
Former Eagle Star Insurance building at the Regent Centre, Gosforth , Newcastle upon Tyne .