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The Bank of Liverpool and Martins lists Langwathby
for the first time in its Annual Report and Accounts, January 1920, covering
the year 1919. Prior to this there is
no mention of this sub-Branch, and although it is not listed as one of the
branches that opened that year – and in the absence of evidence to the
contrary – we will assume that it did.
Tucked away close to the border with Westmorland, Langwathby is a
sub-Branch to Penrith.
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In Service: 1919 until Friday 8 May 1942
© Geographia (and successors) for Martins
Bank Limited 1968
Extract from Bank of Liverpool & Martins
Annual Report and Accounts 1920 © Barclays
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 Penrith
and its many sub-Branches, are managed between 1919 and 1928 by Mr J H Bates,
then from 1928 to 1946 by Mr J G Holliday (pictured, left). In what turns out
to be a real “job for life”, Mr Holliday enters the service of the Carlisle
and Cumberland in 1900, serving at Carlisle, around twenty Liverpool
branches, then Appleby in Westmorland, Barrow in Furness and finally
Penrith. Sadly we have no images of
Langwathby, which closes in 1942 for the Second World War, but is not
re-opened. We would love to find images of any of Martins Bank’s Penrith area
sub-Branches that were closed around the time of the Second World War. If you can help - either with memories or
photographs - please do get in touch with us at the usual address: martinsbankarchive@btinternet.com.
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