11-59-71 Bamburgh 9 Lucker Road

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The Bank of Liverpool and Martins opens up shop in the beautiful North-East coastal village of Bamburgh in July 1924. The original branch is located at 1 INGRAM LANE, but by the late 1950s, the office is becoming cramped and the business is moved to these better-appointed, handsome premises in Lucker Road.

Martins Bank has branches in all manner of remote and romantic places, and Bamburgh certainly ticks all the boxes, having its own Castle, being the ancient seat of the Kings of Northumbria, and also being home to Grace Darling, who famously rescued shipwrecked sailors at nearby SEA HOUSES, and is buried here.

Although nicely appointed in a stone fronted building, Martins Bank’s Bamburgh sub-Branch is nowhere near as romantic as a castle, and whilst they always go to extremes to helpful, we don’t think any of the staff ever rescued a stranded sailor! In the twenty-first Century, it seems economically extravagent to have a sub-branch of a bank open for a total of only four hours a week. However, this is the swinging 60s, and the Branch has been tastefully kitted out for a society where cash is still overwhelmingly the major payment method.

If we are not mistaken, that looks like one of those new-fangled ITV aerials on the roof – just the thing to bring in all those wonderful new shows from “Tyne Tees Television, Channel 9” (♫Diddle-im-pom-pom♫)