Goslings Bank was a historical English bank, located since at least 1743 at No. 19 Fleet Street

Fleet Street

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, London, and identified to customers by a hanging signboard depicting three squirrels. After becoming Goslings and Sharpe it was a constituent bank in the Barclays&Co

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 merger of 1896 . The name of this well-known banking family is perpetuated in parentheses on all Barclays cheques relating to accounts held at the Fleet Street branch.

External links

• http://www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/explore/highlights/highlight_objects/cm/c/cheque_of_barclays_bank.aspxBritish Museum
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  exhibit: Cheque of Barclay's Bank with Goslings' name and address]