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A Branch at Warrington comes into the
ownership of Martins Bank, through the amalgamation of the Bank of Liverpool
and Martins and the Lancashire and Yorkshire Bank in 1928. These small but
impressive premises are opened by the Lancashire and Yorkshire in 1874, and
remain open as a bank for sixty-four years until 1937 when Martins Bank moves
to 78 BRIDGE STREET. These are the days before
governments have had the chance to interfere with county boundaries, and
Warrington has not yet been made to hop across the border from Lancashire
into Cheshire. Our branch photograph
comes from a 1922 L and Y Bank publication, and the above extract from
Kelly’s Directory of Lancashire (1905), confirms the address of the Branch.
Until the move to Bridge Street, Warrington is listed in the telephone
directory simply as “L&Y Branch”, with no other address details. Our thanks to
Barclays Group Archives for looking on our behalf into Martins Bank’s
premises register, which reveals that the Branch at 34/36 Horsemarket Street
is acquired by Warrington Corporation for the purposes of street widening.
Martins Bank’s new Branch is erected by the bank on the corner of Bridge
Street and Rylands Street, and is opened for business on Monday 31 May 1937. |
In Service:
December 1874 until Saturday 29 May 1937 Image © 1922 Martins Bank Archive
Collections: The W N Townson Bequest |
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Image © 1925 Martins Bank Archive Collection – Alan Jones |
This cheque, issued
in 1925 was drawn by the paternal grandfather of Alan Jones, and Alan has
donated the cheque to the Archive. The cheque is payable to his younger
brother Brian, who is actually only a couple of months when the cheque is
written! It is good to see the habit of saving being instilled into one so
young, even if he wasn’t aware of it at the time! |
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