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Dumfriesshire museum at site of world's first saving bank set to be taken over

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A “significant step forward” has been taken to safeguard the long-term future of a Dumfriesshire museum at the site of the world’s first savings bank.Dumfries-born Professor David Thomson and his wife, Teresa Church, are set to take over Ruthwell Savings Bank Museum after owners TSB agreed, in principle, to transfer the building and its contents to Comlongon Estate Limited which is owned by the couple.The move follows the pair recently buying Comlongon Castle at Clarencefield.They have pledged “significant investment to improve, consolidate and expand the visitor experience at the museum” which is on the site of the original Ruthwell Parish Bank which the Reverend Henry Duncan founded in 1810.Professor Thomson said: “It was never our

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