11-26-51 Brough

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Two pints of milk and a

dozen eggs please, farmer…

Glenwood - a fairly typical name for a house in Westmorland, more often than not the sort of name that conjures up a small guest house or a farm. In this case it is Martins Bank’s sub-Branch at Brough which opens for business for only two and a half hours each week, as an extension of the service offered by Kirkby Stephen branch.

Having acquired the branches of Messrs Wakefield Crewdson’s Kendal Bank in 1893, the Bank of Liverpool wastes no time adding to its network of small branches and agencies throught Westmorland.

The Summer of 1936 sees a one hour per week extention to the opening hours at Brough sub-Branch, which is communicated to customers through local newspaper advertising similar to that shown here (right).

In the smaller branch photograph (far right), the outside of the building has been brightened by the addition of flowers, but ominously, the sign that tells everyone that the days of Martins Bank are over, can also be seen to the left of the door. Glenwood does make it through the merger, but after seventy-five years, its banking days are over by the Spring of 1972.