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| Ballina to Berry | | Click here or on "Up" at left. | | Bulli | | CBCofS Annual Reports:-
1920-06-30 Bulli not listed;
1925-06-30 lists "Bulli G F Crouch Manager"
1933-06-30 "Branches at Bulli & Byron Bay NSW have been closed" | Bundarra
Bendemeer Street | 
1920
1920
1930s 
2001 DJ
2003 HW
2004 JS
SC
2006 CC
2007 MZ
2017
2022
| 1906 Opened (116th Report);
1911 Listed in 125th Report;
1920 photos of the bank and group including Robert Hilliar on the left holding the baby (Bruce Stanley), with his wife Wilhelmina who wrote the note thereon. Photos provided in 2008 by Wendy Kuipers who is Robert's granddaughter (Bruce's daughter).
1930s photo from Jan Woolley, taken by her father.
1934 Listed in Century of Banking.
1972 Branch converted to Receiving Office.BUNDARRA.—The Bundarra branch of the Commercial Banking Company of Sydney is to cease trading on May 19.
During recent years several of the bank's clients have left the area, due to the current rural recession in search of better job opportunities.
The branch in future will be operated as an agency by staff from the CBC bank branch at Inverell on Tuesdays and Thursdays of each week.
Entries show that the first accounts were opened in the current account ledgers on February 7, 1906.
The office then was operated in a home owned by Josie Layton, in Ben-demeer Street, licensee of the "Commercial Hotel".
That building now is occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Robert Schumacher, garage proprietors.
In 1912 the present bank site was purchased on the corner of Bendemeer and Tomline streets at a cost of £545.
In 1914 the premises were then erected at a cost of £3390.
These stand on a site previously owned by Benjamin Dyscn and Son who owned and conducted a blacksmith and wheelwright shop.
The sale of the old building raised £29/17/6.
Previous bank managers were:
1905/20 W. N. Munro;
1920/25 R. Hillier;
1925/31 W. G. Elwin;
1931/35 G. W. Hooper; 1935/39 R. F. Barclay;
1939/45 H. M. Woolley;
1945/49 G. A. Longmuir;
1949/53 F. V. C. Driffield;
1953/55 J. E. Searle:
1955/58 C. G. Evershed;
1958/6] A. E. Campbell;
1961/63 W. M. Pearce;
1963/66 E. Campbell: 1966/69 Mr. Watts;
1969/70 B. Douglas; 1970/72 B. Locke.
The present manager, Mr. Bernie Locke, is being transferred to Coolemon, near Albury.
Transfers of remaining bank staff are yet to be determined.1977 listed in Annual Report as receiving office of Inverell.
2001 photo by David Jobson
2003 photo by Harold Wood
2004 photo by Jim Skinner
Sunset photo by Sam Clough
2005 Ian S. Watts, whose first Managerial appointment was to Bundarra stated: "The Branch and attached residence was a magnificent 2 storey sandstone building. The builder, of Scottish origin, still lived in the village."
2006 photo by Cheryl Cox for Harold Wood
2006 A person from Bundarra has stated the building has lacked maintenance due to a family dispute between husband and wife (owners of the building), with divorce settlement pending. JB
2007 photo by Marek Zborowski, David James' son-in-law. His daughter Christine says: "Dad believes you already have this branch, but wanted to show its current condition. He understands that it is not being kept painted or maintained, as the owners have split up (divorce)".
2017 September photo by Wayne Linnert, who advised: "We came home via Port Macquarie and through an old sleepy town of Bundarra and saw the old branch which is now in derelict condition."
2022 July photo by Ray Zinner. | Bungendore
Cnr Molonglo and Gibraltar Sts |  
2006
2012 | Molonglo St is the through-road that passes through town between Goulburn and Queanbeyan/Canberra. Start your walk around the village at the south-western corner of Molonglo St and Gibraltar St, opposite the BP garage. This building was erected in the 1870s as the Oriental Bank. The stables were for the bank manager's horses and the tiny cottage was built for the boy who tended the horses. This building was used in the filming of the 1969 movie Ned Kelly which featured Mick Jagger in the title role.
The Oriental Banking Co (1875) fell victim to the land boom and droughts.
1884 Oriental Banking Corp went into Liquidation.
1884-5 CBC acquired Oriental Banking Corp premises & accounts as well as some OBC staff from branches of Murrumburrah & adjoining OBC branches in surrounding districts.
2007 January photos of old Commercial Bank, which was previously the Oriental Bank; stables and groom's quarters at rear submitted by Geoff Chapman, courtesy Angie Angel.
To safeguard their money from bushrangers many settlers cut their bank notes in half, sending one half to their bank on one mail coach and the other half of the next coach.
2012 January for sale:
In 1969 the current owners happened upon 23 Molonglo Street for the first time and fell in love instantly with the old stone house and its rich history. They were enchanted with the atmosphere created by the stables, the cottage and the elm grove protecting the buildings as well as the very wild garden. They immediately started the renovation and restoration to restore both buildings and garden. The cedar doors, windows and fireplaces were stripped, sanded, waxed and brought back to life. Over the years the stables and cottage were converted to create two additional self-contained dwellings.
A charming feature of this unique home is that the building faces inwards around a courtyard overlooking the garden and there is a real sense of a calm oasis as you look out across the green lawn and into the now huge old elms. You feel as if you are far out in the country, but know that you can walk out the other door and get to the store and main street shops in two minutes.
This is a home with a rich, varied and long history, it was chosen as key location for the film 'Ned Kelly' staring Mick Jagger. There were some features of the house that had been especially changed for...show more the film mainly the front two rooms, now bed rooms, that were part of the Euroa Bank scenes in the Richardson film shot in 1968. The home has had many uses - as a bank, blacksmiths, bicycle makers (the first bicycle made in Australia was constructed here), solicitor's, bakery, a stock and station store to name but a few uses. The building is very flexible and some of the rooms have changed uses as the current owner's children have grown up and left home.
Filled with character and charm the extended kitchen and dining rooms have been host to long winter dinners with family and friends by the great fire or pizza nights by the beautiful old oven. In summer, picnics in the garden and evening games of boules have been a constant source of fun and relaxation. It has always been a welcoming home.
The vegetable garden and orchard are a particular delight and working out in the back garden, across the creek, where you can see across to the Lake George escarpment in all its changing lights and colours as the seasons change.
| | Burrangong | | 1861 Branch opened (25th Report) at the Lambs Flat gold diggings.
1873 NSW Advertiser listed 6 Sept 1873 and 4 Oct 1873, but not listed 7 Feb or 7 Mar 1874. | Burren Junction
Waterloo Street | 
1961
1986
1986
2011
| Burren Junction is 51Km West of Wee Waa on the Walgett Road.
John Beer states: From memory CBC BJ was:-
1. half way between Railway Station & Hotel
2. about a block north east of Bowling Club
3. On Eastern side of the street it was in
4. about half way down the block
5. surrounded on western and southern sides with a wrap around veranda
1910 Opened (124th Report); "1910 May 16 Burren Junction branch opened by Mr Julian who arrived in a hurry and rented the building and immediately erected a canvas sign "Commercial Bank Ltd" on the front of the shop. Next day an officer from Bank of NSW arrived to open a branch but bolted when he saw Mr Julian's sign." Then later on the present site purchased in Waterloo Street for 1,000 pounds.
1961 letter from the late Mr JT Church who banked with the branch from the day it opened and his son, daughter-in-law and grandchildren are still with us' (from Current Accounts January 1969 pg 24).
1934 Listed in Century of Banking
1960 Manager was Mr Johnston when it was a 2-handed branch.
1961 photo from John Beer.
1961 Manager R A McMahon
1976 Branch closed 16 November converted to an Agency of Wee Waa branch.
1980s approx. became Receiving Office from Wee Waa branch.
1986 May photos by Frank Maundrell. The photograph of the interior of Burren Junction depicts Gwen Britten (nee Stiller).
1992 January 10 Burren Junction Agency closed (19910129 NSW ACT Circular 50)
2009 April: John Beer says: " I think Ian Watts was Second Officer at Burren Junction and his first branch as Manager was Bundarra or Woodenbong. It was known the a relieving Burren Junction Second Officer aged 16 won 60 pounds playing two up at the hotel on Anzac Day which was a lot of money in 1960." "I relieved the Second Officer more than once at Burren Junction when Roy Jonhston was Manager of the 2 handed branch. Caught the 11pm train from Tamworth and had to wait at Werris Creek for the 3am train (from Newcastle) to Narrabri where I had to change to the Walgett train departing at 7am.
Arrived at Burren Junction about 12 noon. Only place to stay was the old timber pub that was falling down.
The hotel floor was so unlevel that it was fatal to drop a pencil on the floor because you could not catch it before it rolled under the skirting board.
The Manager would have had an assistant in his teens, who would have been called "Accountant" or "Teller/Accountant". Burren Junction was a "two-hander". Ian Watts, at 26, was Second Officer. Letters from Head Office to Burren Junction announcing such appointments, always of young men, would include the injunction to the Manager to "...report to this Office if Mr xyz is still at your Branch 9 months hence..." Burren Junction was such a bad appointment that young Officers were not expected to endure more than nine months! Head Office also invariably instructed the Manager to seek "...suitable accommodation..." for the young man and report the resultant circumstances. Equally invariably, the Manager reported there were no available lodgings in the town and that, although manifestly unsuitable, the only accommodation available was a room at the only Hotel in town. An assurance that the Manager would "...keep an eye on him..." was also invariably included. HeadOffice would then respond by "...reluctantly accept the Manager's proposal...rely on your supervision..." The letter books contain many examples of staff wanting to get out well before their nine months expired. One was of a young man who hailed from Kempsey. He returned home for annual leave during his time at Burren Junction and a series of correspondence records his attempts to return. First letter said that his car had broken down and he was forced to return to Kempsey, thus delaying his return. Next was a letter stating that he had been taken ill during his return trip and was again forced to return to Kempsey. A medical certificate was enclosed. This was followed by another similar. The series concluded with a letter enclosing the young officer's resignation! He simply could not face returning to Burren Junction. Another series related a young officer's request for transfer on medical grounds. The Manager informed H.O. that there was no doctor at Burren Junction, that the nearest was at Wee Waa, then a day's drive away, but that doctor was unreliable because he was an alcoholic. The next doctor was at Narrabri, a further day's drive away. H.O. demanded to know the nature of the young man's medical condition, which the Manager reported was haemorrhoids! He did get the transfer!"
2011 October John Munro advised: "I am attaching a few pix of exCBC buildings I found on a recent visit to Lightning Ridge."
2013 March John Beer advised that Burren Junction then became an Agency and later closed.
2017 July from David Jobson: Here’s some more information on Burren Junction branch I obtained from Nab Archives. I recently did a tour around a lot of these far out little towns, took some pics and then researched some more info for the website.
Fancy being a manager at places like this, not so bad for the boss but pretty bad for his long suffering wife and family! A good story on the website by John Beer about a junior officer’s lot in BJ in the 6os.List of Managers:
1911/13 J.O’C. Davies
1913/17 E.H.Hart
1917/20 J.E.Graham
1920/23 H.C.B.Thomson
1923/27 K.L.Cameron
1927/28 A.D.Mackenzie
1928/30 F.E.Hopkins
1930/35 I.J.Dale
1935/41 S.L.Jay
1941/46 F.A Noble
46/49 F.J.B.Watson
1949/53 A.B.Longmuir
1953/55 E.S.Proctor
1955/59 R.E.Solling
1959/64 J.R.Johnston
1964/69 R.A. McMahon
1969/71 R.J.Dawson
1971/74 D.B.Smith
1974/76 F.L.Kenny | Burrowa
(now known as Boorowa) | | 54Km North of Yass on Lachlan Valley Way
1861 Branch opened (25th Report) at the Lambs Flat gold diggings;
1884 Opened (72nd Report);
1893 January Listed in 89th Report;
Closed 1898 (101st Report). | Byerock
(now known as Byrock) | | Byerock is 78Km SE of Bourke on the Nyngan/Bourke road.
1884 Opened (73rd Report);
1886 Closed (76th Report).
2006 Population of Byrock is 12. Buildings include Byrock Hotel. | Byron Bay
1913 @ 22 Jonson Street.
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1979 @ 33 Jonson Street
Agency, then sub-branch then branch.
55 Jonson Street | 
1913-1920s
2009 @22
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2008 @33
| 1913 May 1 Daily Standard Brisbane states: Mr. C. Darvall, who has been transferred from Gladfield as manager of the Commercial Banking Company of Sydney to Ayr, has been farewelled by his friends at the former centre.
1913 In August The Commercial Banking Company of Sydney Limited opened a branch with Mr Frank Evans as temporary Manager until the arrival of Mr F H Richardson from Casino as the permanent head. The branch, facing Jonson Street, adjoined a lane, now named Commercial Lane, on the other side of that lane from the present nab branch and was (in 1984) occupied by Farrell's Homewares Store It now (2009) houses a pharmacy . (from Time and Tide - A History of Byron Bay - Maurice Ryan c.1984)
Evidently a branch opened in Byron Bay in 1913 and closed in the 1920s. Ken McColl provided me with an undated newspaper report regarding nab which stated that the Bank had a presence in Byron Bay area since 1913. (Geoff Chapman)
1921 H S Boyd joined CBCofS at Byron Bay (from 1968 January Current Accounts Pg 83)
1930 The branch had closed by 1930 as the branch business had been transferred to Mullumbimby sometime prior to that date
1933-06-30 CBCofS Annual Report "Branches at Bulli & Byron Bay NSW have been closed"
2009 Image of the Jonson Street Byron Bay site at 22 Jonson Street that was occupied by CBC 1913 to 1920's. Separated from present nab branch by Commercial Lane. Submitted by Geoff Chapman.
2012 December John Beer forwarded the double framed photo, advising "It is thought these photos
came from NAB Archives Melbourne about 20120505".
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1979 January 8 opening of Agency of Bangalow whose Manager was Ken McColl. 2nd in charge was Joy Slater;
1980 July 7 converted to Sub-branch
1981 Sept. listed as Sub-branch in List of Managers;
1982 March 31 listed as a Branch in List of Managers
1982 Address from Canberra Times ad June 8
1984 from Time and Tide - A History of Byron Bay - Maurice Ryan c.1984: Other information gleaned from the book is:
The site of the present nab branch was occupied by the first 2 of 3 buildings of The Great Northern Hotel, the first 2, of timber construction, being destroyed by fire in 1897 and 1936. The hotel was rebuilt in 1936, 2 doors from the present nab branch
2008 Google Earth image of nab 33 Johnson Street Byron Bay, this being the CBC that opened in 1979, as an Agency of Bangalow. Confirmed by then Bangalow Manager Ken McColl. It was later updated to a sub-branch and by 1982 had achieved full branch stature. Information from Geoff Chapman.
Shops 1 & 2 of 31 Jonson St (said to be very close to where original CBC Byron Bay branch was) submitted by John Beer. |
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