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Those coal
miners’ wives… This shiny new Branch is the
new premises for Shiney Row sub-Branch, which opens at 7 Westbourne Terrace
in June 1966. Our feature FEMININE FAYRE already covers Martins’ dated attitude to the use
of women staff as an attraction to male customers, but as one listener to BBC
Radio 4’s Making History programme recalls, at Shiney Row in the 1960s, the
tables are turned, but not in a way that you might have expected…
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In Service:
13 June 1966 until 17 May 1969
All Branch Images ©
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“Houghton
le Spring had a sub-branch at Shiney
Row, and once a week the coal miners’ wives would come in for their men’s
wages, which by that time were paid
directly into the Bank. Consequently, there was always great
competition amongst the junior male staff to be on Shiney Row’s counter on
pay day to chat up all of the wives”. (Michael
Bryant November 2011)
Shiney Row operates both
counter and nightsafe services, and is open full hours across the six day
banking week. This is not enough
however, to save it from the axe, and with the Barclays merger just seven
months away, Shiney Row shuts its doors in May 1969.
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