Wem High Street - No 18

	Year Owner/Occupier Property Useage 1850 - - 1890 - - 1911 Wem Cash Drapery Co Drapers 1930 R Griffeths Draper & Outfitter 1937 Jn Bradshaw Draper & Outfitter 1953 Bradshaw Peake Furnishers 1960 T Peake & Sons Furnishers 1995 Barclays Bank 2011 Barclays Bank 2018	Wem Cash Drapery and a carrier for Eyton Races in 1905
In 1937 the premises were both a drapers and the Headquarters of the North Wales power Company.When Bradshaw Peake closed, the premises was redeveloped as a bank.Barclays reduced their presence in Wem from a main bank to a part of a north-Shropshire grouping, and therefore did not need the large building at 20.The redevelopment involved the introduction of dummy windows where none had previously existed. These were painted out when the branch wa re-decorated in 2016- a sure sign that it wa to close. In 2018, this happended, with Barclays claiming that only 110 people used the branch. The quesues out the door suggested that their statistics were slightly dubious. Barclays in 2000	Bank in 2012