Thank you both.

The Lloyds Bank Horse is 17th centuary I am told, being Black Horse Yard where the Bank moved from or to when it took on its new form in the following century.

As for Berks losing the Uffington horse I knew they were angry but didn't know they had made it black, that is fascinating.

I see that the Black Horse as a pub sign was associated (through the black horse ridden by one of the four apocalypse riders) as hunger, and the sign indicated it was then a place to eat. The Blcak horse was often called the 'hungry horse' and the ewhite the 'running horse' after the Hanoverian horse. Funny they always put kings and queens on white horses and highway persons on black horses!

Any more known?

VBB