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BRANCH CLOSURES – THE REMAINING BRANCHES

On 15 December 1969, the “Appointed Day” in the Barclays Bank Act, hundreds of Martins Bank Branches turned overnight into Branches of Barclays. Ever since, that number has reduced as ways of doing business along with competition, trends, and any number of factors backed up by the ever more sophisticated abilities of the computer have all done away with the need for there to even BE bank branches. Just a little more than twenty years into the new Century, we find most banks are closing the equivalent of one branch a day EACH – that’s easily over 2000 a year. That we are still left with more than thirty of the seven hundred Martins Branches that were subsumed by Barclays says much about the strong foundations of the Banks that themselves came together to create the modern-day Martins Bank in 1928. We thought that it might be a fitting tribute to those branches still standing, and even those who are on the brink of being given the chop to feature here, showing in bricks and mortar, just how strong the name of Martins remains, FIFTY-FIVE years on from the MERGER… The following list of original martins bank branches that are still open, was last checked on 16 march 2024

Click on the BLUE LINKS to visit these branches:

 

 

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11-36-00 Bangor

 

Opened 25 May 1964 by Martins Bank Limited

 

CLOSING 10 MAY 2024 at 12 Noon

 

 

 

 

 

11-66-02 Bexley Heath

 

Opened by Martin’s Private Bank 1 Jan 1886

Demolished and Rebuilt as part of a modern shopping centre development in the 1970s

 

 

 

 

11-81-00 Blackburn Darwen Street

 

Opened by the Lancashire and Yorkshire Brank September 1903

Demolished and rebuilt by Barclays in the early 1980s

 

CLOSING 10 MAY 2024 at 12 Noon

 

 

 

 

 

 

11-53-20 Carlisle English Street

 

Opened by the Carlisle and Cumberland Bank in 1836

 

 

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11-60-21 Castletown Isle of Man

 

The Manx Bank opened a Branch at Castletown in 1882

The present branch was opened by Martins Bank Limited in 1933

 

 

 

 

11-99-20 Cockermouth

 

Opened prior to 1911

 

CLOSING 17 JANUARY 2025 at 12 Noon

 

 

 

 

 

11-35-30 Dewsbury Market Place

 

Opened 1818

 

 

 

 

11-03-50 Keighley

 

Opened by the Craven Bank in 1840

 

CLOSING 29 AUGUST 2024 at 12 Noon

 

 

 

 

 

11-05-50 Kendal

 

Opened by Wakefield Crewdson’s Kendal Bank 1 Jan 1788

Extensively modernised by Martins Bank in 1963

 

 

 

 

 

 

11-26-51 Kirkby Stephen

 

Opened by Wakefield Crewdson’s Kendal Bank 1863

 

CLOSING 12 APRIL 2024 at 12 Noon

 

 

 

 

 

 

11-27-50 Lancaster

 

Originally opened by the Manchester and Salford Bank in 1868

Acquired by Wakefield Crewdson’s Kendal Bank 1883

 

CLOSING 25 APRIL 2024 at 12 Noon

 

 

 

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11-57-50 Llandudno

 

Opened by Martins Bank in 1938

 

 

 

 

11-80-60 Penrith

 

Opened by the Carlisle and Cumberland Bank in 1894

 

CLOSING 17 APRIL 2024 at 12 Noon

 

 

 

 

 

11-94-60 Preston Fishergate

 

Originally opened by The Preston Union Bank Limited in 1869

Demolished and completely rebuilt by Martins Bank 1963-65

 

 

 

 

11-08-70 Ramsey Isle of Man

 

Originally opened by the Manx Bank 1882

 

 

 

 

 

11-19-70 Rochdale Yorkshire Street

 

Opened by the Lancashire and Yorkshire Bank 1875

 

CLOSING 18 APRIL 2024 at 12 Noon

 

 

 

 

 

 

11-15-51 South Shields

 

Opened by the North Eastern Banking Company September 1857

 

 

 

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11-12-80 Spalding

 

Opened by Martins Bank 1959

Closed by Barclays in 1972 and then re-opened in 1974

 

CLOSING 10 MAY 2024 at 12 Noon

 

 

 

 

 

11-48-50 Wallasey Liscard

 

Opened by the Bank of Liverpool 30 July 1906

 

CLOSING 24 MARCH 2024 at 12 Noon

 

 

 

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11-69-90 Worcester High Street

 

Opened by Martins Bank 30 March 1937

Originally a branch of David Grieg Grocer

 

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