Building Societies Association
Consumers
Factsheet
Banks that used to be building societies
Contact: Katie Errington
Date: 20 Sep 2007 		Print page  |   Email 

Bradford & Bingley

floated 4 December 2000.

Birmingham Midshires

taken over by Halifax, April 1999.  Now a division of Bank of Scotland, which is part of the HBOS Group.

Northern Rock

floated 1 October 1997.

Bristol & West

taken over by Bank of Ireland, 28 July 1997. Bristol and West transferred its branch network and savings business to Britannia Building Society on 21 September 2005.

Woolwich

floated 7 July 1997, taken over by Barclays Bank in October 2000.  Now exists only as a trading name of Barclays.

Halifax

floated 2 June 1997, merged with Bank of Scotland to form HBOS in 2001.

Alliance & Leicester

floated 21 April 1997.
National & Provincial

taken over by Abbey National, 5 August 1996 (ceased trading under this name).

Cheltenham & Gloucester

taken over by Lloyds Bank PLC, 1 August 1995.  Now exists only as a trading name of the Lloyds TSB Group.
Abbey National

floated 12 July 1989, acquired by Banco Santander Central Hispano in November 2004.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

These institutions are no longer building societies and should not be referred to as such.  They are not members of the Building Societies Association.