Manchester District Office

MANCHESTER DISTRICT OFFICE

43 SG 68 Martins Bank’s Manchester District Office comes into being in 1928 with the amalgamation of the Bank of Liverpool and Martins with the Lancashire and Yorkshire Bank. Mr F S Kitchin is appointed the first District General Manager, although under the Lancashire and Yorkshire Bank, there have already been two separate District Managers since 1919. Martins’ District Offices are responsible for the control of the local branches that make up each particular district. This is achieved by a number of specialist departments within each District Office.

Those departments are represented in our District Office pages by the photographs we have available of the people who worked in them. Based on the information given in the pages of Martins Bank Magazine, we do our best to match photographs of staff to their correct department, but if you find an error, please let us know about it by sending us an e-mail to the usual address:

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No 43 Spring Gardens which is home to Manchester District Office, is the Bank’s principal office in the city, being formerly the Head Office of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Bank Limited. It is upon the insistence of the directors of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Bank that the Bank of Liverpool and Martins, shortens its name to Martins Bank Limited in 1928. See also: FOUR CENTURIES OF BANKING and COAT OF ARMS. Nowadays the building at 43 Spring Gardens houses a highly commended Indian Restaurant. Importantly, the building, and its impressive banking hall remain largely as they were, but in the late 1960s, even when the Bank’s merger with Barclays was already on the cards, Martins was doing ambitious things – like appointing its first female Bank Inspectors in Manchester, AND planning to knock down its Spring Gardens premises to put something altogether different in its place…

Here come the inspectors!

Stepping out from Spring Gardens are Margaret Ashworth and Maureen Thomas, members of a Manchester District outside inspection team and the first girls in the Bank to take part in a full branch inspection. How have their male colleagues reacted? 'They've been very patient and helpful/ Maureen said, 'and soon accepted us—once they got over the initial shock.' 'We were apprehensive about breaking into what has until now been regarded as the males' prerogative/ Maureen remarked, 'but all our doubts were soon dispelled.'

Manchester – City of Trees?

1968 04 MBM.jpg The Bank’s 80 year old building at Spring Gardens Manchester, once the Head Office of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Bank, and since 1928 the home of Manchester District Office and City Office, may be pulled down. Outline planning permission has been given for the Bank’s £1.25 millions development scheme which would replace the decorative Victorian building with an eleven storey block. Included in the project is an open space at the front of the building which would be decoratively paved and planted with trees. So the Bank may be helping Manchester to become a city of trees: already twenty-eight plane trees have been planted in Albert Square.

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An impression of the eleven storey block that may take the place of our present office at Spring Gardens



*Sir Cuthbert Clegg* *Board Member* *1948 to 1968*	*The Rt Hon Angus D Campbell CBE Board Member from 1949* *Chairman from 1960*	*Mr W D’Arcy Madden* *Board Member* *1950*	*Mr H Mancknols Walton* *Board Member* *1951*	*Mr Kenneth Stoker* *Board Member* *1951*	*Mr Percy Woodhouse* *Board Member* *1951*



*Mr J F Simpson OBE TD* *Board Member* *1955*	*The Rt Hon The Viscount Walberton - Board Member* *1958*	*Mr N G Lancaster MBE* *Board Member* *1960*	*Mr I A D McLean* *Director* *1962*	*Mr Alan Green* *Board Member* *1964*	*Mr E H Priestley* *Local Director* *1965 to 1968*



*Mr C G Seddon* *Director* *1967*	*Mr R B Stoker* *Director* *1967*	*Mr W Wormauld* *Director* *1967*

MANCHESTER TELEPHONES			DISTRICT OFFICE – GENERAL STAFF


*Miss Dorothy Eaton* *Manchester Switchboard* *Relief Operator 1947*	*Miss Maragret Lord* *Manchester Switchboard Operator 1947*	*Miss M P P Glover* *Relief Staff* *1953 to 1968*	*Mr Alan Brierley Sim* *On the staff* *1953 to 1957*	*Mr C A Shuttleworth* *District Office Staff* *1957*	*Mr T R Froggatt* *Relief Staff* *1957*



*Mr J Pendlebury* *Pro Manager* *1959 to 1960*	*Mr F Kirkham* *District Relief Staff* *1961 to 1969*	*Miss A C Mossop* *Centralised Posting Unit* *1964*	*Mr W P Glover* *Asst Staff Manager* *1967*	*Mr T E Hopley* *Relief Staff (Retiring)* *1968*	*Miss M E Goddard* *Manchester District* *Lady Supervisor 1968*



*Mr M P M Brown* *Assistant Staff Manager* *1968*

MANCHESTER DISTRICT CATERING STAFF


*Mrs C Dick* *Manchester Girls’ Canteen* *1958*	*Mrs E Martin* *Manchester Girls’ Canteen* *1958*	*Mrs H Roberts* *Manchester Girls’ Canteen* *1958*	*Mrs C Courcoux* *Brown Street Canteen* *1958*	*Mrs W Whitelegg* *Brown Street Canteen* *1958*	*Mrs E M Bidwell* *Manchester Men’s Canteen* *1958*
			DISTRICT GENERAL MANAGER’S DEPT


*Miss M J Whalley* *St Ann’s Square Canteen* *1958*	*Mrs M E Douche* *Manchester Management Dining Room 1958*	*Mrs S Johnson* *Manchester Management Dining Room 1958*	*Mr C J Verity* *Manchester Assistant District General Manager* *1938 to 1946*	*Mr J Froggatt* *Joint District General Manager* *1946*	*Mr G R Tarn* *Joint Manchester District General Manager* *1946*



*Mr D O Maxwell* *Manchester District* *General Manager* *1950*	*Mr T Cowpe* *Assistant* *District Manager* *1952*	*Mr R Tonge* *Asst Dist Manager 1953* *then District Manager* *1953*	*Mr C Whiteley* *Manchester Assistant District Manager* *1954*	*Mr E H Priestley* *Asst Dist Gen Manager* *1958 then* *DGM from 1961*	*Mr J H Jennings* *Manchester District Assistant General* *Manager 1961*
		INSPECTORS


*Miss M M Graveson* *Manchester DGM’s Lady Representative 1966*	*Mr N E Foster* *Manchester Assistant DGM* *1966 then DGM from 1968*	*Mr Mungo Conacher* *Manchester District Senior Inspector* *1935*	*Mr L K Holden* *Chief Inspector* *1947*	*Mr H J Southworth* *Inspector* *1949*	*Mr H S Mellor* *Inspector* *1952*



*Mr J S Laver* *Inspector* *1956 to 1960*	*Mr R Tanner* *Inspector* *1959 to 1964*	*Mr T Derbyshire* *Inspector* *1963*	*Mr J Speak* *Inspector* *1964*	*Mr J W Ottaway* *Inspector* *1964*	*Mr A Meadowcroft* *Inspector* *1965*



*Mr A N Barratt* *Inspector* *1965*	*Mr C Mitchell* *Inspector* *1966*	*Mr R Paulson* *Inspector* *1967*	*Mr J P Smith* *Inspector* *1968*	*Mr R S Hilton* *Inspector* *1968*	*Mr M Flint* *Inspector* *1969*
		SUPERINTENDENT OF BRANCHES


*Margaret Ashworth* *Inspector* *1969*	*Maureen Thomas* *Inspector* *1969*	*Mr J Froggatt* *Asst Superintendent of Branches 1934 to 1946* *Jt Dist Gen Manager 1946*	*Mr Harold Blundell* *Manchester District Superintendent* *of Branches 1949*	*Mr N R Manser* *Manchester Superintendent of Branches 1958*	*Mr F Tunstall* *Superintendent of Branches* *1964*
	PREMISES


*Mr D S Gallagher* *District Superintendent* *1968*	*Mr D E Snelson* *Asst Premises manager* *1967*

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Address:

Index Number and District:

Telephone:

District General Manager:

Assistant District General Manager:

Martins Bank Limited Manchester District Office

43 Spring Gardens Manchester Lancashire

701 Manchester

061 832 4061/3585

Mr N E Foster (1968)

Mr J H Jennings (1961 to 1966)

A number of self accounting sub-Branches are under the direct control of Manchester District Office:
	11-13-00 Manchester All Saints
	11-71-00 Manchester Birchfields
	11-12-30 Manchester Cornbrook
	11-62-50 Manchester Longsight
	11-17-60 Manchester Moss Side

1889

3 January 1928

15 December 1969

14 May 1990

Head Office of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Bank

Martins Bank Limited

Barclays Bank Limited

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