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The Midland Bank vault. A huge round polished steel vault door with heavy bolts and a spoked wheel stands open on its hinge, framed in a steel ring in a navy panelled wall with a brass Deco wall light. Through it, a room lined floor to ceiling with brass safe deposit boxes, a small table with two leather chairs and a green-shaded lamp under a lit ceiling panel, on grey stone flags.

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Midland Bank

Stair to the vault. 1980s bank, narrow, south side.

The card

shops 12 of 19

Midland Bank

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The notes

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What it really is Stair to the vault
Front 1980s bank, narrow
Side South, number 12 of 19 walking the street clockwise from the north-west
Frontage 3 m
Floor area about 21 m², from the model

One of the six heroes, a narrow 3 m 1980s bank: a navy frame with gold serif lettering, a stone plinth, brass handrail stubs, a night safe plate and a round bracket clock over the pavement. The stair behind goes down to the vault. It replaced The Northern Counties Bank in rev P.

The room behind it has its own page under below the street: The Midland Bank vault, 1980s bank vault.

The plates

3 · lift any one out
The Midland Bank vault. A huge round polished steel vault door with heavy bolts and a spoked wheel stands open on its hinge, framed in a steel ring in a navy panelled wall with a brass Deco wall light. Through it, a room lined floor to ceiling with brass safe deposit boxes, a small table with two leather chairs and a green-shaded lamp under a lit ceiling panel, on grey stone flags.
01 · The Midland Bank vault
Blockbuster at dusk after rain. A deep lit blue box sign with yellow BLOCKBUSTER lettering and a yellow strip, a white shopfront with the window full of colourful generic film posters and racks of cases, a red OPEN sign in the door and a blue returns box beside it. Midland Bank's navy front and a bracket clock are on the left, a red telephone box at the kerb and The Regal's REGAL blade sign and marquee on the right, under the glass canopy and the limestone upper floor.
02 · Blockbuster at dusk after rain
The south side straight on from above the courtyard in autumn sun. Left to right: Ashworth Ironmongers on the corner, Texas Homecare with a red fascia and a part-closed roller shutter, Ironside Boxing Club showing a boxing ring through the window, the narrow fronts of Fletcher's Range and Midland Bank with a bracket clock, Blockbuster's blue sign, the red phone box, The Regal's marquee and blade sign, and Our Price on the far corner. Three slate roofs step above the limestone upper floor, with a chimney.
03 · The south side straight on from above the courtyard in autumn sun