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The images below make up what has to be one of the best of our “Then and
Now” comparisons, because at 155 Daventry Road, so
little appears to have changed on the outside. The configuration of doors and windows, (so
often changed at other branches) has remained the same, and the addition of a
cash machine has caused only a slight relocation of the night safe. On the
inside, is the arrangement of vinyl floor tiles of which Martins Bank is
particularly fond, usually arranged in the “zebra crossing” style seen below,
and use of this flooring is evidenced in our photo archive for many branches
from around 1963 onwards. |
In Service: 4 August 1966 until
Friday 30 June 2017 All Martins Branch
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Whilst the floor may now be seen as
old fashioned, the ceiling tiles and lighting panels at Cheylesmore are still
to be seen in many an office today. |
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We don’t have an image of today’s
interior at Cheylesmore, but we do note with some sadness that the advent of
the bandit screen in the early 1970s put paid to the Bank’s open wooden
counters. Cheylesmore Branch opens at the height of Martins Bank’s “Animals and
Children” advertising campaign, and in the Branch Opening Announcements shown
below, Percy the Wallaby is featured as being one of those who just “can’t
wait” to explore the new Branch… |
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Coventry
Evening Telegraph 27 July 1966 THE
BRITISH LIBRARY BOARD. Image reproduced with kind
permission of The British Newspaper Archive |
Image © Martins Bank Archive Collections 2017 |
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All Martins Branch
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