WELSH nationalist party Plaid Cymru wants Wales to have its own banknotes - to put it on the same footing as Scotland and Northern Ireland.

But did you know the last private bank in England and Wales allowed to print its own notes before the Bank of England was in Wellington?

Two of the last nine notes - one of them uncancelled - are housed at the House of Fox (Tone Dale House) in the town.

Fox, Fowler and Company was the last commercial note issuing bank in England and Wales until it was bought out by Lloyds Bank in 1921, when it lost the right to issue banknotes and the Bank of England became the sole note-issuing bank in England and Wales.