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In June 1958, what looks like a couple
of old terraced houses is bulldozed to make way for something altogether
different. Like a cross between a
public library and a public convenience(!) the newly built branch of Martins
Bank occupies the same site as the old one. This takes place a year or two
ahead of the major rebuilding programme with which the Bank forges ahead to
welcome in the 1960s. We will see new buildings which look far worse than the
new Belford Office as the architecture of the new decade is explored to the
full. Whilst Belford is being knocked down, and until it can rise again from
the rubble, business is conducted from 32 Market Place for which, sadly,
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In Service: June 1958 until Saturday 8 August 1959
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Image © Martins Bank Archive Collections – advertisement restored 2019
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This short piece of news comes from
the Newcastle Journal of 19 June 1958. The “work” it refers to as being
hopefully completed in a month’s time is not an optimistic forecast of a new
branch – it refers simply to the demolition
work. The job of building the new office takes just over a year and the
temporary branch at 32 High Street closes its doors for the final time on
Saturday 8 August 1959.
Newpaper Image (left) © Trinity Mirror
Image created courtesy of THE BRITISH LIBRARY BOARD. Image reproduced with
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