11-327 Gilsland sub to Haltwhistle

The small village of Gilsland lies eighteen miles North-East of the City of Carlisle, and actually sits either side of the borders of Cumberland and Northumberland, about a mile and a half from the historic Thirlwall Castle. A sub-Branch is opened there in 1923 by the Bank of Liverpool and Martins, the parent Branch being at nearby Haltwhistle. In its time, Gilsland is a reasonably busy branch, opening for ten and a half hours across three days each week, including Saturday Mornings. Between 1956 and 1960 Martins assesses its stock of branches, and decides which will be closed, re-furbished or rebuilt, ahead of a major 1960s programme of new branch building in the Midlands and the South.

In Service: 11 May 1923 until 1959