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Manchester Corn Exchange Branch is opened in 1920 by the Lancashire and Yorkshire Bank at Trevelyan Buildings in Corporation Street. In 1928 it becomes a Branch of the modern day Martins Bank Limited.

Extract from Martins Bank Limited Annual Report and Accounts for 1928 – © Barclays

Image © BT 1938

The corner aspect of the branch is quite imposing, and this method of effectively having a branch in two streets at once is much favoured by Banks at this time. Sadly, Corn Exchange branch is one of seven of the Bank’s Offices that are destroyed by enemy action – in this case the Manchester Blitz of Christmas 1940. We apologise for the rather blurred image captured from the footage of the Branch on fire. You can appreciate the full horror and the devastation of the Manchester Blitz – including images of Corn Exchange branch with spoken commentary – in a short film made by the Manchester Co-Operative Society held by the film archive of the Imperial War Museum HERE

Image © Co-operative Society /Imperial War Museum 1940

Mr E Barlow On the Staff 1929-38 Manager from 1931	Mr W A Hill On the Staff 1929 to 1940	Mr E I Medcalf On the Staff 1936 to 1939	Mr R S H Pawlyn Manager 1936 to 1941	Mr W G F Jessop Pro Manager 1938 to 1941	Mr F H Foster Joined the Bank Here 1940 to 1941

Title: Type: Address: Index Number and District: Hours: Telephone: Services: Manager:

11-538 Manchester Corn Exchange Sub to 11-538 Manchester City Office Trevelyan Building 43 Corporation Street Manchester 701 Manchster Mon to Fri 1000-1500 Saturday 0900-1130 BLAckfriars 9526 Counter Service Only  Mr R S H Pawlyn Manager

Manchester Cornbrook 248-250 Chester Road

Pre 1922 3 January 1928 1941

Opened by the Lancashire and Yorkshire Bank Martins Bank Limited Destroyed by enemy action

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