Professional ServicesgalleryPictures: Lloyds Bank celebrates 250th anniversaryBookmarkShareProfessional ServicesByTamlyn JonesBusiness Reporter11:41, 3 JUN 2015Updated15:49, 4 JUN 2015Bank of Scotland head office by William Sibbald, 1803 (Image: Pic: Lloyds Banking Group plc Archives)1 of 11Sampson Lloyd II portrait (Image: Pic: Lloyds Banking Group plc Archives)2 of 11John Taylor portrait (Image: Pic: Lloyds Banking Group plc Archives)3 of 11A Taylors & Lloyds banknote issued in 1809 - they had a licence to issue their own notes (Image: Pic: Lloyds Banking Group plc Archives)4 of 11This branch in Dale End was also Taylors & Lloyds' first head office until 1882 (Image: Pic: Lloyds Banking Group plc Archives)5 of 11This branch in Colmore Row was the bank's head office from 1882 to 1912 after which the head office moved to 71 Lombard Street in London. Picture taken circa 1870 (Image: Pic: Lloyds Banking Group plc Archives)6 of 11Having operated from just a single office for almost a century since launching, Taylors & Lloyds opened its first ever branch at 30 Birmingham Street, Oldbury, in 1864 (Image: Pic: Lloyds Banking Group plc Archives)7 of 11Beehive cheque from 1898. The beehive was Taylor & Lloyds' first symbol, adopted in the 1820s, as many people at the time could not read therefore recognise the bank's notes (Image: Pic: Lloyds Banking Group plc Archives)8 of 111923 annual report with black horse symbol which was inherited from bank Barnetts, Hoares & Co in 1884 when Taylors & Lloyds it took it over. The two symbols were used together until the 1920s when the beehive was dropped (Image: Pic: Lloyds Banking Group plc Archives)9 of 11Bank teller with balance scales and weights, taken in 1920s (Image: Pic: Lloyds Banking Group plc Archives)10 of 11Union Bank of Scotland £20 from April 1942 (Image: Pic: Lloyds Banking Group plc Archives)11 of 11