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The North Eastern Banking Company opens a sub-Branch at
Wrekenton in 1910.
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In Service:
1910 until 1958
Extract
from North Eastern Bank Annual Report for 1914 – © Barclays
Extract
from Martins Bank Limited Annual Report and Accounts for 1940 – © Barclays
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 Four years later the Bank merges with the Bank of
Liverpool and its branches begin their journey to becoming part of the
Martins Bank we know from 1928 until the end of the 1960s. Wrekenton unfortunately doesn’t make it
quite that far, a small cull of Martins outlets between 1956 and 1960 sees to
that, with this little office bowing out in 1958. Wrekenton
is about two miles south of Gateshead, and about a mile from its parent
branch at Low Fell. It is interesting to note that there don’t seem to be
photos of any of the branches that close at this time, so we live in
hope that Martins filed them somewhere that is still to be discovered! Kelly’s Directory of Durham for 1914
spells Wreckenton
with a C before the K, but the accepted and current use spelling has no C.
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