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The
Furness Peninsula is almost saturated with Branches of the many Banks that
came together to make the modern day Martins Bank – notably Messrs Grice and
Company of Bootle, Messrs Petty and Postlethwaite of Ulverston, and
Messrs Wakefield Crewdson’s Kendal Bank.
The
Kendal Bank has amalgamated with the Bank of Liverpool barely six months
before a sub-Branch at Kirkby in Furness is opened in December 1893. The
sub-Branch is originally known as Kirkby Ireleth, and along with nearby Askam in
Furness and Dalton in Furness acts as a satellite office to Barrow in Furness
Branch. In 1956 an early cull of some of Martins’ tiniest Branches results in
the closure of both Kirkby and Askam in Furness. We were
delighted when Brian Brown contacted us with not one, but TWO photographs of this sub
branch – considering it only opened for two hours a week and was closed in
1956 this is an amazing find. The
extract below is from Kelly’s 1924 directory of Lancashire and shows Kirkby in
Furness opening only for two hours on the first Wednesday of the month. Although
the Bank’s signage is placed above and next to the front door, this will have
been a private house with a room rented for the limited hours of banking
service available here. |
In Service: 12 December
1893 until 1956 Image
(1941) © Martins Bank Archive Collections – Brian Brown |
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