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  The staff of Martins Bank don’t spend ALL of their time
going to extremes to be helpful at work.
At play too, they know how to entertain, and under the auspices of
Martins Bank Society of the Arts, there are SIX operatic and/or dramatic
societies to choose from - Martins
really do know how to put on a show!
From the 1940s until 1980, productions are staged that showcase the
talents of Martins Bank’s army of theatrical types. Following the Merger with Barclays, Martins
Operatic Society manages to carry on, having (sadly) dropped the word “Bank”
from its title, and we remain indebted to Mike Ellis, Geoffrey Kelly and the
late Beryl Creer for making available a number of the programmes printed for
some of these post-merger productions. We now have programmes for all but one
of the years from 1970 to the winding up of the Operatic Society in 1980, and
these are featured at the bottom of this page. There is also so much material
in the archive relating to the productions and performances staged over the
years, it is likely to be some time before we can feature all of them on this
site. Menus are now available for most
of the societies and groups shown below – simply click on a leaflet – and
each of them has a choice of productions for you to enjoy!
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