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Martins Bank’s
branch at Anfield is opened 7 April 1931, and is listed in a Wartime Head
Office Circular as closing in February 1942. It actually remains open until
September that year and is closed due to a lack of trained staff. |
In Service:
7 April 1931 until 22 September 1942 |
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Image © Martins Bank Archive Collection Advertisement Remastered May 2019 |
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After just two full years of war, the demands of the
Kennett Committee on employers to release able bodied staff to join the war
effort, is causing the closure of businesses, including Bank branches, all
over the land, and many of these offices will never re-open. Anfield Branch is heralded by
advertisements in the local press, and starts life as a sub Branch to
Liverpool Breck Road. We have not found any reference to Anfield or its staff
in Martins Bank Magazine, but the Advertisement and the Bank’s Annual Report
and Accounts for 1932 shows that Anfield is managed by Mr H T Fielding, who is also Manager of
Breck Road. The legacy of the Bank of Liverpool is to have created a branch
of Martins in just about every corner of the City of Liverpool, so why Martins
feels the need to open another Liverpool Branch, and not to re-open it again
after the War is something of a mystery.
If you can help with images
and/or information about this or any of Martins Bank’s 1000 Branch buildings,
please do get in touch with us at the usual address gutinfo@btinternet.com. Image © 1931 BT Of the
many and varied uses for former Bank branches in the twenty-first Century,
Anfield’s role as “The Anfield Cheque Cashing Company” would seem
appropriate! |
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It is
interesting to note from the advertisement that the Bank is celebrating “ONE
HUNDRED YEARS” – this refers to the founding of the Bank of Liverpool, and
does not take into account the much longer association that Martin’s Private
Bank had with the City of London, which dates back to 1563. This situation is rectified, when only
thirty-two years later – in 1963 – Martins Bank is suddenly FOUR HUNDRED
years old! |
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Extracts
from Martins Bank Limited Annual Report and Accounts for 1931 © Barclays |
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