Huddersfield Equitable Permanent Benefit Building Society is established by three gentlemen who meet each morning from 5 - 8 a.m. in a single room in Huddersfield. Early directors of the Society include a dentist, a shoemaker and a plumber.
Assets at the end of the first year total £4,044 13s 5d. There were six borrowers.
West Yorkshire Building Society is established at the Royal Hotel in Dewsbury with only two staff.
The luxury of an umbrella and a rug were purchased for the Society's offices.
Bradford Self Help Permanent Building Society is established in St. George's Hall Coffee Tavern. Assets at the end of the first year total £185, with 43 members.
During its first four years of business the Bradford Permanent opens for just an hour and a half once a week.
By this date, the Society's office was fitted with the electric light.
The first lady employees join the Society.
The number of staff employed by the West Yorkshire BS has doubled to four.
The modernised offices of the Bradford open at Queen Anne Chambers with rubber covered floors and ultraviolet ray glass.
The Huddersfield and Bradford Building Societies merge in the largest marriage of two societies to date.
The Huddersfield & Bradford and West Yorkshire Building Societies merge - The Yorkshire Building Society is born!
Yorkshire Guernsey Limited established in St. Peter Port as a wholly owned subsidiary of the Yorkshire, offering offshore investment facilities.
Yorkshire Building Society merges with the Haywards Heath Building Society.
YorkSHARE Limited is launched - the first sharedealing service to be developed, owned and run by a building society.
Yorkshire Building Society's assets top £10 billion.
YorkSHARE Limited, the Society's share dealing service, was sold to TD Waterhouse Group Inc, a leading online financial services firm and the world's second largest execution only stockbroking business (measured by transactions).
Yorkshire Building Society is the third largest mutual in Britain with assets of over £11 billion.
Assets in excess of £23 billion with 2 million members.
Yorkshire merges with Barnsley Building Society (60,000 members, £368m assets) on 31st December.
Yorkshire merges with Chelsea Building Society on April 1st 2010. With combined assets of over £30bn, 2.8m members and a network of 178 branches.
Yorkshire acquires Egg mortgage and savings book, and the Egg brand, on 31 October 2011.
Yorkshire merges with the Norwich & Peterborough Building Society on 1 November 2011.
Assets of approximately £33 billion with 3.5m members.
Yorkshire Building Society is one of the largest building societies in the UK. We offer a range of financial products and services including: savings & investment accounts, insurance products, loans, mortgages and more.
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