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Church Street - Shropshire Bank
The Shropshire Bank
At the beginning of the Victorian period, this building was home to the Shropshire Banking Company. As a consequence of its location on the edge of the east Shropshire coalfield, Wellington began to enjoy a commercial upturn in its fortunes during the latter stages of the 1700s. Thomas Eyton, the Registrar-General of Shropshire, took advantage of this trend in 1805, when he opened the town's first regular banking facilities in partnership with two prominent local Industrialists, John Wilkinson and Joseph Reynolds.