Halifax Equitable Benefit Building Society

Contents:

• General Points

• First Annual Report

General Points

Established in June 1871 by a group which included Walter Common and Henry Haley.

It opened on 5th July 1871 at 25 Waterhouse Street, Halifax.

Subsequently, their offices were at

• Bank Buildings, Halifax [1872]
• Their headquarters were at the corner of Central Street and Silver Street, Halifax
• The Brighouse branch was in Bethel Street
• The Elland branch opened on 3rd May 1921

On 22nd September 1927, it was announced that the Society would merge with Halifax Permanent Building Society of 1853 and Halifax Permanent Building Society of 1900 to become the Halifax Building Society. The actual merger was completed on 31st January 1928.

First Annual Report

The first annual meeting of the Society was held in a room at the Mechanics Hall on Tuesday 24th September 1872 The report gave the following information about the Society

	Address: Bank Buildings, 23 George Street
	Trustees: John Waterhouse Esq, Josiah Aked Esq, and Edward Ingham Esq Thomas Turley Esq was one of the trustees but died shortly after the Society started
	Directors: James Bowman Esq [President], Councillor Edmonds [Vice President], George Adam Battinson, Frederick Chapman, Andrew Cockroft, Charles Horsfall Denham, Frederick Green Fleming, Henry Haley, George Jennings, Joseph Lee, Joseph Morton, James Parrish Jnr, Benjamin Walker, and John William Ward
	Arbitrators: John Baynes, Alderman Berry, John Caw, Councillor Whitehead, and John E. Whitewood
	Auditors: William Cash and James Nicholl
	Secretary: Walter Common
	Bankers: The Halifax and Huddersfield Union Banking Company
	Solicitors: Messrs Emmet & Emmet
	Treasurer: Robert Edgar Esq
	Surveyors: Messrs Horsfall, Wardle and Patchett
	Number of shares taken up during the year: 689 3/5
	Number of shares withdrawn or redeemed: 37 3/5
	Leaving on the books: 652
	Amount of receipts from all sources: £12,543 11/-
	Amount paid to borrowers: £10,745
	Total Profit: £57 1/6d

Everyone was very happy with the results of the first year

See Sir Alfred Arnold, James Bowman, John Caw, Equitable Bank Limited, Halifax, John Mackintosh and Joseph Harger Mitchell

This & associated entries use material contributed by Sylvia Crowder, Michael Krening & David Nortcliffe

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