Meeniyan
Cnr Geale & Whitelaw Sts |  
1940
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2014
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1929 December 6 Listed in The Week, Brisbane advertising page 35.
1934 Listed in Century of Banking;
1940 photo of Bank of Victoria, Meeniyan from Richard Powell
1964 built replacing the Bank of Victoria building which was on the site. Google Earth image of the former CBC Branch, from Geoff Chapman in May 2014.
1975 Listed in Annual Report
2014 May image of the door handle of the former CBC branch in Meeniyan, provided by Richard Powell. |
| Merbein | 
2009 | 1929 December 6 Listed in The Week, Brisbane advertising page 35 with Merrigum Receiving Office.
1934 Listed in Century of Banking;
1975 Listed in Annual Report.Photo by Kevin Greenaway (believed to be of Merbein)
2009 September Geoff Chapman provided Google Earth image of ex-Merbein branch. Now Bendigo Bank branch |
Merino
Cnr High & Maud Streets |  | "Kirribilli" Bank of Victoria photo from State Library of Victoria.
c1880 Architects Smith & Johnson Builder James Nation & Co of Melbourne to same design as Coleraine branch by same architects and builders as can be seen in photos of these 2 branches (Coleraine Historical Society)
1976 NAB closed. |
Merrigum
(receiving office of Kyabram)
96 Byrneside Kyabram Road | 
2009
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2010 | HISTORY:
The Merrigum Progress Association was successful in securing a banking agency for the town in 1902, through the Bank of Victoria. A permanent agency of the Kyabram Bank of Victoria was established in Merrigum in 1914, and Mr R Swale was appointed as agent. The agency became a branch when a new bank building was constructed to house the business in 1919.
Rate books list the building in 1920 as valued at £50, with Francis James Parkinson the bank manager. By 1953 it was valued at only £42. The building became a branch of the Commercial Banking Company of Sydney, after the Bank of Victoria was taken over.
Description:
The former CBC branch is a single-storey clinker brick inter-War commercial building with hipped roof clad in Marseilles pattern terracotta tiles and with boxed eaves and simple unadorned brick chimney. The building comprises the main banking chamber with offices and ancillary rooms to the rear and is constructed to the footpath with gardens at the sides and rear. Each corner of the building is defined by vertical bands of dog-toothed brickwork, three bricks wide and the plinth is defined by a soldier course. The rear and side elevations contain timber-framed double-hung sash windows and timber paneled doors.
The symmetrical façade features a central entrance with pair of 4-panelled timber doors surrounded by rendered hood moulding and column motif to the reveal. It is flanked by a pair of steel-framed fixed and pivot sash windows (glass removed) which have rendered recessed panels below and surmounted by a rendered band at eaves line bearing the signage: ‘COMMERCIAL BANKING COMPANY OF SYDNEY LIMITED’.
Significance:
The former CBC branch in Merrigum is of local historical and aesthetic significance. Erected in 1919, it demonstrates the growth of the district as after World War One due to the availability of irrigation water and the Soldier Settlement scheme. Aesthetically the building is a typical example of a modest inter-War commercial building.
Source: ‘City of Greater Shepparton Heritage Study Stage 2 - Heritage Place Datasheets, pages 89-90 - Allom Lovell & Associates” - Permission to use requested - Pending. Information sourced from www.lauraheap.com. Laura is the current owner.
1929 December 6 Listed in The Week, Brisbane advertising page 35 as Receiving Office of Merbein.
1934 Listed in Century of Banking as a Branch.
1975 Listed in Annual Report as a Receiving Office
2009 Geoff Chapman sourced Google Earth image of ex-Merrigum branch premises.
Highly unusual in that full bank signage remains on the building.
Photo from Flickr.com (all rights reserved by Mattinbgn)
2010 photos from www.lauraheap.com. Laura is intending to market the building in 2011. |
| Mildura | 
1909
1911
1948 | 1909 & 1911 photos of Bank of Victoria from State Library of Victoria.
Third photo from Mildura and District Historical Society.
1929 December 6 Listed in The Week, Brisbane advertising page 35 with Irymple and Redcliffe Receiving Offices.
1934 Listed in Century of Banking;
1948 postcard. This building evidently replaced an earlier one.
1975 Listed in Annual Report
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