Old photo courtesy Kevin Meyer.

Rare old photo taken by Frank Chapman, who relieved the tellers there.

Heritage Listed: An interestingly styled Federation Free Classical commercial building which was an early local bank and remains a prominent local commercial premises. Relic of the early twentieth century commercial boom along Military Road.
This building is designed in the Federation Arts and Crafts style.  A two storey brick building with roof concealed behind a stepped parapet on a triangular site with corner entry though a classical portico casing of carved sandstone. Classical columns frame the window above.

1929 December 6 Listed in The Week, Brisbane advertising page 35.
1934 Listed in Century of Banking;
1975 Listed in Annual Report.

1976 photo submitted by David Jobson in July 2013, who was Accountant there at the time.

1987 list of Managers and premises details file supplied by David Jobson who said "I was accountant here in 1976. Manager was Alec James. A peculiarly designed branch in that the strongroom was centrally located and everyone worked around it, difficult to see what was going on in the place!"

2006 photo by John Ness

2010 Google photo sourced by John Beer

2010

2007 February site of North Auburn branch, which has disappeared, photos by John Beer.

2008 July 'The recently demolished shop in front (of the old bakery built around 1924) was built about 1926, when it was leased as an agency of the Commercial Banking Company of Sydney Ltd, probably the second bank in Northbridge.  The bank stayed there only two years, when it moved to the site of the present Tennis Shop.' from The old bakery by Pam Clifford in The 202 newsletter of the Northbridge Progress Assn, submitted by Chris Rush.

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1920 photo on corner of Lane Cove Road from Miller Street panorama (click here to view) supplied by Christopher Rush.

Bank of NSW is in the centre, Post Office between and CBC at far right.

1929 December 6 Listed in The Week, Brisbane advertising page 35.
1934 Listed in Century of Banking.


Photographed in 1943 by Frank Chapman
 

1977 listed in Annual Report

I understand the NAB Branch in North Point was established for High End Customers , there were also similar premises established in the MLC Tower in the city and another in a large building near the Regent Hotel.

I worked at North Sydney Branch for  over 6 years in the sixties. The North Point building was built in the seventies, original buildings there had been Washington H. Soul Pattinson and a store called Arnolds.  Arnolds was owned by the Keith Family, both were customers of the Bank. The Keith’s sold their property to developers in the early seventies for well over a million dollars. Shortly afterwards in 1972 they were on a trip to the UK. I ran into Mrs Keith at West End Branch one afternoon and she gave us free tickets to see a play on the West End. We were later invited to dinner with Peter Martin then Manager London Office and Allan Holmes then Manager at West End, with our wives.

The CBC managers were:
R.E. Hine                       1975-1977
W.M. Gray                     1977-1980
B.A. McGirr                   1980-1983
I.J. Christopherson        1983-1984

There is a building on the corner which is now the Australian Catholic University and I suspect it has been slightly altered since the original building opened.