11-36-20 Burnley Colne Road

Look through any window…

Windows, like mirrors, can sometimes reflect bits of everyday life that otherwise go unnoticed, or become lost in history. Here at Burnley Colne Road in 1969, the windows of the branch are particularly clean, and give us a tiny glimpse into 1960s sales culture – long before the days of the warehouse style “retail outlets” that have grown like a rash over our towns and cities, Burnley’s Discount Shoes is showing us a simple message – shoes, at a discount – exactly what it says on the shop! Colne Road is another of Craven District’s very appealing branches. Barclays moved to 124 Colne Road in 1977, and that particular branch closed in 2015.

In Service: 1908 until June 1977

Branch Images © Barclays Ref: 0033-0116

“A busy War” at Colne Road…

When the County Borough of Burnley’s Branch Rate Office has to close unexpectedly in 1943, the good folk of Burnley can sleep easy in their beds knowing that they may still pay their rates at Martins Bank’s Colne Road sub-Branch – and in 1946 the building is treated to much needed renovations and the Bank moves temporarily from Number 111, to Number 74 Colne Road…	Burnley Express 16 January 1943		Burnley Express 26 October 1946
Newspaper Images © Northcliffe Media Limited. Images created courtesy of THE BRITISH LIBRARY BOARD Images reproduced with kind permission of The British Newspaper Archive.
		Here is Colne Road in the 1960s, and just a few years into the 1970s as a branch of Barclays. The distinctive windows are the main way of identifying this cross between a house and a bank!

Branch Images © Barclays Ref: 0033-0116