Anglia Building Society

The Northampton Town and County Freehold Land Society was formed in 1848, later becoming Northampton Town and County Benefit Building Society. In 1950, the Wellingborough Town and District Permanent Benefit Building Society transferred engagements and in 1953, it became simply Northampton Town and County Building Society. This Society absorbed a number of other societies.[http://www.bsa.org.uk/docs/consumerpdfs/yearbooknamechangepart1.pdf Extract from Building Societies Yearbook 2009/10] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131109054139/http://www.bsa.org.uk/docs/consumerpdfs/yearbooknamechangepart1.pdf |date=2013-11-09 }} (p.154) Building Societies Association (retrieved 17 November 2009)

The Hinckley and South Leicestershire Permanent Benefit Building Society became Hinckley and Leicestershire Building Society in 1950 and finally Leicestershire Building Society in 1958.Extract from Building Societies Yearbook 2009/10 (pp.144 & 148) Building Societies Association (retrieved 17 November 2009). Not to be confused with Hinckley Permanent, which on merger with Rugby Provident became Hinckley and Rugby Building Society in 1983 or the unconnected Leicester Building Society, which on merger with Alliance Building Society became Alliance and Leicester in 1984 This merged with the Northampton Town and County in 1966, to form the Anglia. The new Society, headquartered in Northampton, absorbed a number of other societies.

In 1978, the Society transferred its engagements to the Hastings and Thanet Building Society, itself formed by the merger of the Hastings Permanent and Isle of Thanet building societies in 1951, becoming for a short time Anglia Hastings and Thanet Building Society. In 1979, the Grimsby Building Society transferred engagements and in 1980, it once again became known as Anglia Building Society. The London and South of England Building Society transferred engagements in 1983 and the Country (including the engagements of the former Westminster) Building Society transferred in 1984.Extract from Building Societies Yearbook 2009/10 (p.127 & 143) Building Societies Association (retrieved 17 November 2009)

In 1987, the Society merged with the Nationwide Building Society, which was formed in London in 1883 and known as the Co-operative Permanent Building Society until 1970.Extract from Building Societies Yearbook 2009/10 (pp.152 & 136) Building Societies Association (retrieved 17 November 2009). See Mansbridge, Albert Brick upon Brick: 50 years of the Co-operative Permanent Building Society London: JM Dent & Sons, 1934 The Nationwide, which traces its dual origins to Northampton, is the largest building society in the world.

The Anglia Building Society was granted a coat of arms by the College of Arms in 1956 and regranted in 1968, upon its change in name{{Cite book |last=Briggs |first=Geoffrey |title=Civic & corporate heraldry: a dictionary of impersonal arms of England, Wales, & N. Ireland |date=1971 |publisher=(10 Beauchamp Place, S.W.3), Heraldry Today |isbn=978-0-900455-21-6 |location=London |pages=34}}.{{Infobox COA wide|name=Anglia Building Society|image=|imagesize=|bannerimage=|badgeimage=|coronet=|torse=|escutcheon=Per fesse gules and argent, in chief a tower triple towered of the second, the portcullis raised Or, and in base a double rose of the first barbed and seeded proper; all between two keys, wards downwards and outwards, counter changed.|supporters=On either side a lion guardant Or gorged with a wreath argent and gules, pendant therefroni by a leather guige an escutcheon also gules, that on the dexter charged with a rose argent, barbed and seeded proper, and that on the sinister with a fetterlock gold.|motto=Stability|orders=|banner=|badge=|symbolism=|year_granted=The arms were officially granted on September 10, 1956 to the Northampton Town and County Building Society; regranted 1 October 1968 upon the change in name.|crest=On a wreath of the colours, Upon a mount vert a griffin segreant Or resting the dexter claw upon a builder's trowel, point downward, proper.}}

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