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 The purpose of
our map – which is more for illustration than any perceived accuracy – is to
point out the North Wales Coastal Branches of Martins Bank.
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In Service: 26 November 1946 until 1948
Image © Martins Bank
Archive Collections
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 Most of them are
still open at the time of the Barclays merger, but one of them is closed more
than twenty years beforehand. In 1946
the Bank decides to open a sub branch at Tal-y-Bont, not too far from Bangor, but perhaps
testing the water well before opening a large branch there. Tal-y-Bont is to be a sub branch to LLANDUDNO, which
lies about twenty-three miles further up the coast. Less than two years after being opened,
Tal-y-Bont is closed, and another sub branch to Llandudno is opened at DOLGARROG – this could well be a commercial decision, based on
the likelihood of the business generated for the bank
being better in one location that in the other. A similar arrangement occurs earlier in
the Bank’s history in the South East of England when SHOREHAM (Kent) is closed in
favour of opening at
OTFORD. We have no image of Tal-y-Bont branch, and if you can help with images and/or information about this
or any of Martins Bank’s 930+ Branch Buildings, please do get in touch with
us at the usual address martinsbankarchive@btinternet.com.
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