Bank of Adelaide, Georgetown, South Australia, c1900. The Bank of Adelaide was founded in 1865 in Adelaide, and had most of its branches within South Australia, including a head office at 81 King William Street, Adelaide. Interstate branches were located in most states of Australia, and one in central London at 11 Leadenhall Street.
The Bank of Adelaide was taken over in 1979 by ANZ and merged into that organisation, after bailing out a subsidiary finance company (the Finance Corporation of Australia) that had made funds available without suitable security.
