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Thursday 29th July 2010 SH (Editor)

New bank to rise from the ashes at Willow Brook

An agency branch of Santander Bank is to open soon at Bradley Stoke’s Willow Brook Centre. The branch will occupy the same shop unit as the former Nationwide Building Society branch, which closed in mysterious circumstances earlier this year. Hundreds of savers in Bradley Stoke were shocked to hear of the closure and say they never received a satisfactory explanation

Tuesday 16th February 2010 SH (Editor)

Shock closure of Nationwide Building Society branch

Management at Bradley Stoke’s Willow Brook Centre say they were “shocked” when The Nationwide Building Society branch ceased trading without notice yesterday (Monday 15th). The agency branch, operated by 1st Equity (part of financial services company 1st Group UK of Thornbury), first opened on Monday 20th October 2008 – one week after the official opening of the Willow Brook Centre.

Wednesday 22nd October 2008 SH (Editor)

All announced tenants now trading at the Willow Brook Centre

The Nationwide Building Society agency, operated by 1st Equity, opened its doors on Monday (20th October) in Bradley Stoke’s new Willow Brook Centre. This means that all tenants of the Centre that were initially intending to be trading on the official opening day of Monday 13th October are now open for business. Elsewhere in the Centre, a press release put