Ultimately, our search was unsuccessful. The high street had been too much of a thrill, and we’d lost track of time and space to one of central London’s densest retail hotspots.

John Timpson knows a thing or two about the high street. The chairman of the UK shoe-repair chain that bears his family name was, after all, entrusted to lead a 2018 government review into what ...

Major high street banks in the U.K. include Barclays, Royal Bank of Scotland Group (RBS), Lloyds Bank, and HSBC. These large high street banks offer both branch-based and online banking options.