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Darwen is a branch of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Bank,
which amalgamates with the Bank of Liverpool and Martins in 1928 to create
the Martins Bank we know today. Bar one
or two tiny mergers and acquisitions afterwards, this really is the final
piece in the jigsaw before Barclays comes along at the end of the 1960s. Thanks to the Lancashire and Yorkshire in particular, and
the other Northern contituent banks, Martins has the resources to expand. A
comprehensive portfolio of branches fills the north of England, and Martins
begins to move south with speed across England – first the Midlands, South
West and South Wales, then the home counties, South and East of England. The only exterior photo currently available
of Darwen Branch is shown above. You can just make out the Branch and Martins
Bank’s Coat of arms hanging sign. If you can help with period images and/or
information about this or any of Martins Bank’s 1000+ branch buildings,
please do get in touch with us at the usual address gutinfo@btinternet.com. The first of our two Darwen Branch features
concerns Kathleen Love, who in 1949, leaves the bank to concentrate on a
promising career on the stage. We then move forward a little to the
retirement in 1956 of Darwen Branch Manager Mr S A Buxton… |
In service: pre 1922 – 28 October 2016 Darwen Church Street ca.
1940s – Image © Tuck Postcards and Successors With special thanks to
Robert Wade (see “Then and Now” below…) Darwen Interior as Barclays circa. 1984 Image © Barclays Ref
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Thanks once more to Robert Wade, whose huge and beautifully
curated collection of photographs of the North of England on the flickR.com®
platform, serves as an unrivalled social history. |
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Robert supplements photographs of buildings from years gone by, with his
own contemporary images which reveal how much, or just occasionally how little
has changed down the years, in our cities, towns and villages. Here we see Darwen Church Street Branch in
2019, when, it appears, the building was still for sale three years after
Barclays had moved out… |
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Title: Type: Address: Index Number and District: Hours: Telephone: Services: Manager: |
11-29-30 Darwen Full Branch 8 Church Street
Darwen Lancashire 726 Manchester Mon to Fri
1000-1500 Saturday
0900-1130 Darwen 73113 Nightsafe
Installed Mr H Shanks
Manager |
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Dartford |
Pre 1922 3 January 1928 15 December 1969 Friday 28
October 2016 |
Lancashire and
Yorkshire Bank Martins Bank
Limited Barclays Bank
Limited 20-25-45 Darwen Closed
Permanently from 12 Noon |
Darwen Bolton Road |
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