The vogue for turning bank buildings into restaurants, pubs and cafés in Birmingham looks set to continue after a Canadian coffee chain picked .
Plans have been lodged to turn the former Santander at 64 New Street into a Second Cup coffee shop.
The Canadian franchise has opened outlets in and had been looking at Cherry Street for its first venue in this city.
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The chain is known for selling Fairtrade Rainforest Alliance .
and beans are quickly extracted and roasted.
But the New Street branch is a continuation of a recent trend in Birmingham of banks being , after the likes of building and .
Banks turned eateries and pubs in Birmingham (see gallery above):
* , in Bennetts Hill, was a former National Provincial Bank
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* The Cosy Club is at the original Midland Bank branch, in Bennetts Hill
* The Old Joint Stock was built as the Birmingham Joint Stock Bank by architect JA Chatwin in 1864
* Big Bite at 78-79 Broad Street used to be a Barclays Bank – and
* Plans have which was developed in 1899 by the short-lived Birmingham District & Counties Bank
* 130 Colmore Row – Nosh and Quaff restaurant – was once an Alliance Assurance office
* Pret a Manger, at 22-24 Colmore Row, sprang up where HSBC once stood
* La Banca, in Pershore Road, Cotteridge, didn’t get that name for nothing. It was built in 1910
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* Bodega Birmingham forms part of the former Scottish Widows Building
* The Briar Rose, in Bennetts Hill, was built in 1926 and 1927 for the Commercial Union Assurance