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Footballers’ lives…
If local legend is to be
believed, Freshfield, an area at one end of the town of Formby gets its name
from a man called Fresh, who in the 1880s owned a field there.
Simple as that. Freshfield
is also known as a kind of “millionaire’s playground” of Merseyside. |
In Service:
20 November 1922 until Friday 29 February 1980
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Footballers and actors live
amongst the common folk, sending the house prices sky high, and a weird
orange glow throughout the area due to the concentration of so many fake tans
in one place. This is of course good
news for a Bank such as Martins, and in 1922
the Bank of Liverpool and Martins establishes an office at Freshfield,
as a sub-Branch to Formby. Freshfield is closed down in 1939 for the Second
World War, but re-opens in 1946. It
is interesting to note that at the time of the 1969 merger with Barclays,
business is good enough for Freshfield to be open for virtually a full
banking week, taking just half an hour for lunch on weekdays. As a branch of Barclays, it remains open
until 1980.
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