Corowa
94 Sanger Street
then
Cnr Church & Sanger Streets
then
157 Sanger Street

List of all Managers:

1887/89
C. N. Marr

1889/93
A. B. Brown

1893/98
A. T. Faunce

1898/03
C. C. Ryrie

1903/30
T. H. Kendall

1930-35
A. C. Dunlop

1935-39
R. T. Bryen

1939/51
L.A. Hieronymus

1951/55
W. C. Highfield

1955/57
L. D. H. Kerans
1957/61
F. M. Cottee

1961/64
E. W. Paine

1964/70
E. H. Anscombe

1970/73
I. Saunders

1973/76
R. Kitcher

1976/78
A. F. Nicol

1978/81
D. M. M. Jobson

1981/86
J. W. Doody
 

2011

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Cnr Church & Sanger

1902

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157 Sanger St

1957

1962

1978
 

1979

2007

2011

2013

2022

T.H. Kendall, Manager. Of good experience. gets about and knows his district well.

E.R. Hall, Accountant and Teller, Inexperienced beyond ledgers. Willing and obliging. Presence only fair. Poor penman, as is now common.

W.G.A. O'Neill, Junior. Writing only fair, but can improve. Good manner and willing.
Fair appearance, tall.

Business quiet, especially in winter, but too much for two 

Office clean and neat

1934 Listed in Century of Banking.
1957 black & white photos by Jim Skinner
1962 photo of Corowa staff supplied by Alan Tolman showing from L to R - Alan Tolman, Eddie Paine (Manager), Joan Witherden and Tony Connelli.
1978 Colour photo of 157 Sanger Street by David Jobson and
1978 December Staff at Corowa branch.   I haven’t got those flares any more. Sandra and her family own the local Newsagency and every now and again we have a chat about our times working together all those years ago.   
L-R  Peter Thompson, 2nd officer,  John Ebsworth, teller
       David Jobson, Manager,          Sandra Tait (now Dunn) Ledgers. 

Gold lettered gauze window sign taken 1978 by David Jobson, who comments:  Strongroom doors used to be a magnet for "in-branch graffiti" When I was appointed manager of Corowa branch in July 1978, one of the first things I was invited to do by my 2IC,Sandra, was to add my name to the list on the back of the door. The names are still there.  The building is now the town library and resource centre; not, as so many of our great buildings have become, a clothing shop, carpet emporium or (gasp) a coffee shop!
1979 coommissioned ink drawing by T.V. Lyons.
2007 Colour photo of 157 Sanger Street by Geoff Chapman.

2009  David Jobson says: "I remember being the "flag man" one day at Fernleigh Castle, that bit of culture initiated by Cyril (the squirrel) Coxon and when we had to raise and lower the flag for the day. I missed it one sunset - a terrible sin - and the flag flew all night, as we were out on the town at Kings Cross.
Next morning I was singled out and had to stand at breakfast while Col.Coxon had a piece of me. All very embarrassing, as it should've been!
It must have had an impact because when I was appointed manager at Corowa a few years later I had the flagpole re-installed on the branch building and used to fly the flag every day!   God save the Queen."

2011 December Auction by local council - David Jobson advised "The building, passed in at auction last week for $325k now has an "Under offer" sticker on it.  It started and finished with a Vendor's (Corowa Shire Council) bid of $325,000. - not a bid, not a sausage. The Council's own Administrative building also went up for auction at the same time, it started and finished with a Vendor's bid of $700,000 - not a bid.  All a bit embarrassing for the Council who hoped to realise $1.5 mil for the two properties to help fund a new town swimming pool. There are a couple of interested parties talking, I'll keep you posted.

2013 July David Jobson advised: "re Corowa branch. The old place was purchased two years ago by some ex-customers of mine and the bank's. the Upton family. They paid $250k for it and have spent a considerable amount of their own time (they are engineers) and money in the hope of converting the upstairs to residential and some type of business downstairs in the banking chamber.
Most of the bearers and roof struts were all replaced in steel as there were many leaks and other problems but the place is now pretty secure as far as construction stability is concerned.
Unfortunately they haven't got the time to go ahead with the project and the place has been sucking money, so it's back on the market. These old places are hard to move and I don't hold great hopes for it for a while. I just hope it doesn't fall into disrepair over the years. The living quarters are occupied by some of the Upton family to keep the vandals out.
I'll keep you posted as to the ongoing future of the old girl. My family have very happy memories of our time living there"
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2013 November David Jobson advised: A local solicitor, David Kothoff has just taken out a lease on the old bank premises in Sanger Street which is owned by Upton Engineering. Carl Upton has recently done a fair bit of work in repairs to the building which included complete restoration of the magnificent front swinging doors, the cost of which was $2,000 for the woodwork and brass fittings.
2015 August Heritage architect: Not uniform and blotchy, quite amateurish in reality and the actual finish looks hungry and not built up with sufficient coats of polish rubbed back between coats and waxed as they should be but therein lies the problem. Finding people with the knowledge to it properly and having done so who knows the difference now anyway except people like me. I spend on average a full week per door or window just on stripping and polishing but the results are worth the effort achieving.

2016 August David Jobson wrote: I remember someone from the then Properties section, collecting the two Webley Scotts from Corowa branch when I was Manager around 1980 and before merger. One had a plastic handle and the other had a wooden handle. I think there were instructions in the green “Procedure Manual” that the guns were to be fired on a (sort of) regular basis and to clear the stock of cartridges before ordering a new lot on the stationery order. They were in boxes of fifty.
My staff and I used to go out to a customer’s farm property occasionally to shoot a few boxes of rounds into a dam. All good fun, however the girls weren’t all that keen on the process. None of us were very good shots either, and the farmer made sure that all the nearby sheep were secured!   Click here for more revolver details.

2022 photo of unusual (possibly art nouveau) gate by David Jobson.