11-676 Preston Cattle Market

Martins Bank inherits Preston Cattle Market Branch, along with the main Branch at Fishergate, through the amalgamation of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Bank, with the Bank of Liverpool and Martins, which takes place at the beginning of 1928. In common with a number of Martins Bank’s smaller branches, Preston Cattle Market closes for World War 2 and does not re-open.

The records of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Bank show that both Preston Branches are Managed in 1922 by Mr E K Maxwell (Manager) and Mr W R Hannah (Sub Manager). At the time the Cattle Market Branch is closed, Martins Bank’s Preston Manager is Mr C E Harris. The picture (below right) comes courtesy of PRESTON DIGITAL ARCHIVE, and shows the Cattle Market as it was in 1936. We currently have no images of the branch itself.

In Service: 8 May 1884 until 1940

Lancashire Evening Post 23 January 1935

Image © Johnstone Press. Image created courtesy of THE BRITISH LIBRARY BOARD

Image reproduced with kind permission of The British Newspaper Archive

Preston Cattle Market sub-Branch is open for a total of fifty-six years, having been opened by the Lancashire and Yorkshire Bank in 1884. Including a new branch at Moor Park, and a temporary one at Lune Street, Martins operates from FIVE different Preston addresses at one time or another.

Extract from Martins Bank Annual Report

and Accounts for 1938 © Barclays

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