Universal Building Society was a UK building society with headquarters in Newcastle upon Tyne that operated between 1863 and 2006 . It was merged with the Newcastle Building Society in 2006.
Universal Building Society was a UK building society with headquarters in Newcastle upon Tyne that operated between 1863 and 2006 . It was merged with the Newcastle Building Society in 2006.
The building society was established in Newcastle upon Tyne in 1863.
In 2006, it merged with the Newcastle Building Society. [1] At the time of the merger, the Universal was the 29th largest building society in the UK with assets of £600m. [2] It had nine branches and employed approximately 130 staff.
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