Heritage Railway

A Jubilee in the bank!

I READ with interest the letter in issue 243 from Colin Stanaway, concerning the forgotten heritage railway bank branch at Longsight in Manchester. Colin said that he thought his letter was not the whole story about the former William Deacon Bank.

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