From mid-July 2021 Nailsea will be a one bank town with no building society although people can deposit cash at the post office.

The HSBC in Nailsea will close its doors on Friday afternoon, June 25, when all accounts were moved to the Portishead branch.

In 2011 the bank which began life in Nailsea as Midlands moved to plush new premises at Colliers Walk just a stone’s throw from its previous home.

The original premises have now become Green’s café but goodness knows what will become on its current double fronted unit.

And in a few weeks’ after the end of HSBC in Nailsea, Barclays in the High Street will also close.

It was in January this year the bombshell bank announcement was made when HSBC said it is to close 82 branches in the UK between April and September this year including the branch at Crown Glass Shopping Centre, Nailsea.

It said the move is because more customers are turning to digital banking.

The company will still have 511 branches across the country.

All Nailsea HSBC accounts will be transferred to Portishead which is only open from 10am-2pm Monday to Friday!

And with Barclays closing its Nailsea branch too this leaves Nailsea with one bank - Lloyds at Crown Glass Place.

Despite NatWest opening in the village in 1912 the powers-that-be closed its Somerset Square branch in 2017.

NatWest’s first opened in Nailsea in 1912 as a sub-branch of Parr’s Bank Ltd at 2 High Street.

Initially operating on Tuesdays only, as its business grew the opening hours were extended, and in 1928 the branch moved to new larger premises in the same street.

Barclays High Street branch is to close on Friday, July 16 this year, three weeks after the Colliers Walk branch of HSBC.

One of the reasons given is it currently has less than 50 exclusive customers.

A Barclay statement said: ‘The number of counter transactions has gone down in the previous 24 months, and additionally 86 per cent of our branch customers also use other ways to do their banking such as online and by telephone.”

Barclays is also closing its Portishead branch a week earlier than Nailsea on Friday, July 9.

The nearest branches will be either in Bristol or Weston-super-Mare.

If the memories of people in the Nailsea History Group on Facebook are correct the last building society to close in Nailsea was Santander approximately four to five years ago.

Nailsea once also had a Nationwide (Anglia), Halifax, Bristol & West which