Powys and Welshpool were all opened on 30 May 1836. The branches at Llanfyllin and Oswestry were opened on 8 June 1836. The branch at Ruthin was opened on 27 June 1836. The branch at Llanrwst was opened on 1 July 1836. The branches at Caernarfon and Chester were opened on 4 July 1836. The branch at Mold, Flintshire was opened on 9 August 1836 and the branch at Wrexham was opened on 19 September 1836. These eleven branches became part of Midland Bank from 1908, helping to establish their branch network in Wales. The bank took over an Aberystwyth bank called Bank y Llong on 15 August 1836 and had a branch at New Street, Aberystwyth from about 1864 to 1885, the bank then moved to a building on the south side of Great Darkgate Street and thereafter planned to move to a new building across the street, but while the new branch was under construction the takeover by Midland Bank occurred. The Wrexham branch was housed in the building where 43 High Street now stands and in 1861 it moved to 29 High Street. The branch at 14 High Street was opened in 1905, and became a Wetherspoons public house in 1999. It was built by Woolfall and Eccles. The facade, of yellow sandstone with polished granite columns, is in a 'baroque palazzo' style. The branch in Rhyl operated from February 1856 from old Bodfor House on the corner of Bodfor Street and Wellington Road. In 1880 the bank moved to premises in the Town Hall where they employed 10 clerks and it remained here until completion of a new building in 1900 made from locally quarried Talacre stone and Ruabon red bricks. The Llangollen branch was established in 1864. The elegant bank premises were built by Morris Roberts, who was responsible for several buildings in the town including the Town Hall and the National School. This bank was closed on 7 February 2014. In Chester the branch was known as the Grosvenor Club and North and South Wales Bank. Establishment of branches in Merseyside The bank became a leading bank in the Merseyside region and from the 1860s onwards it established 'town branches' and extended into new suburbs and into the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral. The town branches had many industrial, trading and shipping customers which balanced the agricultural business of the branches in North Wales, Cheshire