Here you go, Tim:(posted 8471 days ago)"----< Waiting for Bradford & Bingley documents? >----------------- Then wait no longer. Apparently they may have been destroyed.
Of course, documents are a vital to proving in court that a borrower owes you money. But two separate document warehouse fires appear to have destroyed much of this lender's ability to fight its shortfall claims in court.
A substantial number of Bradford and Bingley mortgage deeds were burnt in a fire at Erdington, Birmingham circa. 1998. By an amazing coincidence, another Bradford and Bingley archive warehouse in Hayes, Middlesex, was also torched around 1997."
What's interesting about this is that the B&B are apparently having to go to the trouble of re-creating all the mortgage deeds which were destroyed. Funny how the B&B couldn't rely on Land Registry copies, isn't it?