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Tantobie lies just two and
half miles to the north west of Stanley in County Durham. The Bank of Liverpool and Martins opens its
sub branch there in 1920, but it lasts only until the outbreak of the second
world war, when some thirty-eight branches are mothballed and not re-opened
after the War, due to huge numbers of Martins Bank’s staff being called up to
active service. Between 1918, when the Bank of Liverpool and Martins is
established, and 1932, when the new Martins Bank is only four years old,
almost one hundred new branches and sub branches are opened throughout
England and Wales. |
In Service:
1920 until 1939 |
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Extracts from Bank of
Liverpool and Martins Annual Rpeort for 1920 © Barclays |
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Those opened in the North of the
country are mainly tiny sub offices, mostly open for one day or less per
week, tucked away in some of the remotest corners of Lancashire, Westmorland,
Yorkshire, Durham and Northumberland.
1932 sees the opening of Martins Bank’s lavish new Head Office
Premises in Liverpool, and the rebuilding of the principal London Office of
the Bank at 68 Lombard Street, in London takes place two years earlier. At this point thirty-four branches have
already been closed down, and between 1932 and 1938 a further fourteen are
removed from the Bank’s portfolio, probably to save money following the huge
outlay on the new building work.
Despite the upheaval of branch closures over a period of twenty years
or so, Martins is determined to expand Southwards, and from a position of
being able to boast 600 branches in the post war decade, this number grows to
more than 750 by 1969, and the merger with Barclays. If all outlets had remained open since 1918
Martins would have operated more than 900 branches!
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