Death and rebirth on the high street: the banking transition

Banking is undergoing a transition which has shaken up the British high street.
The architecture of British high street banks is a fixture of our urban landscape. Details such as Roman columns have been used for centuries to signify stability and order. We are used to seeing the big retail banks such as HSBC, Santander, Lloyds TSB, Barclays and NatWest sporting one or two of these, but as major changes transform the retail banking sector, their presence, and their status as civic institutions, i