I’m grateful to David Howard who sent me this picture of the Capital and Counties Bank at 22 High Street. Lloyd’s took over the bank in 1918 and remain there today. The Capital and Counties was itself an amalgamation of the Hampshire Banking Company and the North Wilts Banking Company, both of which were established in the mid-1830s but merged in 1877. From at least 1855 this building was a branch of the Hampshire Banking Company when the manager was John Hodder. For a while there was some competition for business from the Heath family who owned the Andover Bank in London Street but it was short-lived. By that time the Heaths were largely a spent force and any such competition ended in 1861 when Heath’s bank amalgamated with the Hampshire Bank.