Nottingham Building Society
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| Building society (Mutual) | |
| Industry | Banking and financial services |
| Founded | 1849 |
| Headquarters | Nottingham, England, UK |
Key people | David Marlow, chief executive |
| Products |
Savings, mortgages, investments, insurance |
£5.9 million GBP (December 2007),  19.7% on 2006 | |
| Total assets |
£3.0 billion GBP (December 2007),  15.6% on 2006 |
| Website | www.thenottingham.com |
Nottingham Building Society is a building society founded in 1849 by a group led by Samuel Fox (1781–1868), a Quaker and prominent local grocer.[1]
The purpose of the society was to promote the construction of a better class of dwellings, suitable for the working and middle classes, as well as provide a safe and profitable place for small savings.
In 1970 the Nottingham Building Society acquired the Grantham Building Society.
The Nottingham Building Society was one of the first financial institutions to introduce online banking in 1983, with its Homelink service on Prestel. It is a member of the Building Societies Association.
Branches
The company has several branches across Nottingham including in the city centre on Parliament Street, Beeston, Bulwell, Mapperley, Sherwood on Mansfield Road, and Wollaton. It has many of its branches in the county of Nottinghamshire and others in Lincolnshire, Derbyshire and Sheffield.
References
- ↑ Fox had been running a savings scheme with Louisa Woods since the 1830s for students at their Adult School.