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18821	Edwards, Eliezer	Personal Recollections of Birmingham and Birmingham Men			.txt	text/plain	72630	3947	73	Street a row of beggarly houses, standing on a bank some eight feet William took Mr. R.W. Gem's house and offices in New Street, and this day the shops in High Street and the Bull Ring remained entirely At the period mentioned, the firm of Smith, Gray, Cooper, and Co. had the largest banking business in the town. Upfill had, in his dining-room, an excellent life-size portrait of Mr. Smith, taken, probably, about the year 1820. power of establishing branch banks in the large towns of England. Year's Day, 1827, the Branch Bank of England commenced business in banking house, and in a very short time the building standing at the the new bank; and as there was a large shop vacant in that street, a very short time the bank was doing at least as large a business as arrival in the town, he took a small house in Bread Street, a little	./cache/18821.txt	./txt/18821.txt