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It is easy to become
confused by Martins Bank’s four Bootle (Lancashire) Branches. For a start,
there were FIVE of them, until Strand
Road was put out of action by a bomb in the Second World War. Of those that remain,
three are in the same road, and they all become part of Martins Bank Limited,
through the various mergers and amalgamations that take place around the turn
of the Twentieth Century. Linacre is opened
in 1898 by the Bank of Liverpool, and so never really changes hands as the
bank itself is renamed a couple of times before becoming the Martins Bank we
know today. By the early 1960s, the
Branch at 508 Stanley Road, known as Linacre Branch is the biggest of the four, in terms of
business and number of staff. |
In Service:
March 1898 until 2 November 1990
Image: Owner unknown. (Thanks to Keith
Jones for his assistance) |
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We were delighted to find
this atmospheric view of Linacre from its early days under the Martins Bank
signage, which features in the collection of Keith Jones on Flickr®. At the
moment we do not know the exact origin of the photograph, and if anyone can
shed light on the ownership of the image, please do get in touch with us at
the usual address – martinsbankarchive@btinternet.com. Whilst no external view
of Linacre Branch was left to Barclays in the Martins Branch Photos
Collection, there are a number of interior shots, some of which are shown
here. For our Linacre feature, we look to the Summer 1964 edition of Martins
Bank Magazine which pays a lighting visit to Linacre, having also visited
each of the other three Bootle Branches… Within
a fortnight of our office opening at 211 Stanley Road, the third of the Bank
of Liverpool branches, Linacre, opened
at 508 Stanley Road. Today the site, opposite a park at a wide roundabout, is
quite impressive. It has been extended
as the seams threatened to burst and is now under the management of Mr H. S.
Judge who is supported by a lone Yorkshireman, Mr R. H. Watson, imperturbable
among his young Lancashire colleagues.
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