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Whilst many of University
Branches offer only limited banking hours, Liverpool University is a full Branch,
open for the full banking week across six days, and is open to all
customers of the Bank, students or not.
The image above comes from Martins Bank Magazine, and we have no
others from Martins’ time. However,
our friends at Barclays have provided us with the following exterior shot
from 1981, and an interior from 1985. The Branch is still going strong
today. A little further down the page,
our short feature throws the spotlight on Liverpool University Branch
Manager, Bill Morris, who in October 1968 appears to have changed profession
altogether… |
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“ee’s gettin’ married
in the mornin’…” Mr W G Morris, Manager of Liverpool
University Branch, outside his newly-built office. Pardon? Yes, it really is Bill Morris and his
outfit had nothing to do with the recent strike of the Liverpool
dustmen. This is how he appeared on
stage at Liverpool’s Royal Court Theatre as Alfred Doolittle in ‘My Fair
Lady’ which the Birkenhead Amateur Operatic Society staged for a fortnight in
October. And if that dustbin looks heavy – it was. Said Bill: “We had a session taking
pictures and I picked up this dustbin full of clinkers. The expression of anguish is not altogether
staged”… |
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Title: Type: Address: Index
Number and District: Hours: Telephone: Services: Manager: |
Martins Bank Limited
11-81-80 Liverpool University Full Branch Alsop Building
Brownlow Hill Liverpool 90 Liverpool Mon to Fri
1000-1500 Saturday
0900-1130 051 709 1796/2877 Night Safe Mr W G Morris Manager |
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1968 15
December 1969 9
January 2021 |
opened by Martins
Bank Limited Barclays Bank
Limited 20-50-93 Liverpool University Closed
permanently from 12 noon |
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