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This advertisement is printed in the local newspaper
on 18 November 1919 announcing the arrival of Sub-Branches at Penrith Auction
Mart in Cumberland, and at Troutbeck Auction Mart near to Windermere in
Westmorland.
Somewhat confusingly, there are two places named
Troutbeck in adjoining counties, and each is also the location for a Farmers’
Auction Mart - an Auction Mart is the northern name for a cattle or other
livestock market. This sub branch at
Troutbeck Penrith is opened by the Bank of Liverpool and Martins in 1919, but
is open just twenty years before closing at the outbreak of the Second World
War. Two further sub branches in the Penrith area - at Shap and Langwathby -
are also closed down around the same time.
The Kennett Committee, charged with finding ever more
number of able bodied people to help the War Effort makes great demands on
the Bank’s Staff throughout the War, and for Martins this policy means the
end for many small branches which cannot be sustained without staff are just
not reopened after the War. Very
little information is available for these tiny outlets, and currently we have
no images either of Troutbeck Penrith, or of Troutbeck Windermere. |
In Service: November
1919 until 1939
Image © Martins Bank Archive Collections – Advertisement
re-mastered 2018
Extract
from the Bank of Liverpool and Martins Annual Report and Accounts for 1919 –
© Barclays
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If you can help with images and/or information about
this or any of Martins Bank’s 1000+ branch locations, please do get in touch
with us at the usual address martinsbankarchive@btinternet.com. Penrith’s sub-Branch at Glenridding
(Patterdale) fares better, and is still open at the time of the merger with
Barclays in 1969. |
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