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 Martins Bank has a combined Trustee and Income Tax Office in
Manchester, which is originally opened in 1929 in offices at Manchester
District office in Spring Gardens. It
is later moved to these premises premises at 10 Norfolk Street, which are
part of Brown Street Branch. We currently have very little information about
this department, so if you can help with memories and/or images of Manchester
Trustee and investment, please do get in touch with us at the: martinsbankarchive@btinternet.com.
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Service 1929 to 21 November 1969
Image © Barclays Ref 0030/1800
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We have a number of faces for
the staff gallery below, and as items relating to Manchester Trustee turn up
in Martins Bank Magazine, we will reproduce them on this page. We also have the following retirement
feature for Mr Seddon, who has been manager of manchester Trustee Department for
around fifteen years when he hangs up his suit and tie for the last time in
1963…
 on the occasion of his retirement after 43  years' service Mr A. W. Seddon, b.a.(comm.), Manager of Manchester
Trustee Department, entertained over 100 of his colleagues and business
associates to a cocktail party and buffet at the Manchester Reform Club on
October 31st. The company fully reflected Mr Seddon's close and happy
relationship with the whole District and included Mr E. H. Priestley
(District General Manager), Mr D. G. Hanson (Chief Trustee Manager) and a
large representation from District Office, other Trustee offices and the
branches. Mr F. S. Martin, Mr Seddon's successor, in making the presentation
of a cheque and a book containing the names of over 150 subscribers, recalled
that Mr Seddon was only the second Trustee Manager in Manchester since the
Department was opened in 1929.
 In reply, Mr Seddon said that it was a great joy to
him to see so many friends. In particular he expressed his appreciation of
all the help that he had derived from his colleagues to whom he felt in no
small measure indebted for the success of the Department. It is his intention
to spend the next year in Nice, where he has taken the lease of a flat, with
the idea of searching for permanent accommodation there. In recent years
neither Mr nor Mrs Seddon has enjoyed the best of health and we wish them
both every happiness for the future in their new surroundings. Mr Seddon,
who earlier had entertained the staff of the Department to a most successful
dinner-dance at the Rowntree's Diner's Club, was himself the guest to lunch
of the District General Manager at Spring Gardens on October 30th. Entering
the Lancashire and Yorkshire Bank in 1920 Mr Seddon served at Queen's Park
branch before joining the Manchester Trustee Department staff in 1935. He
was appointed Pro Manager in 1946 and Manager two years later.
Scouting
Achievements
  Congratulations to Mr J L Whitehead (Investment
Controller, Manchester Trustee) who has been awarded the Chief Scout’s
Commendation of Merit for services to the Movement. Mr Whitehead has been connected with St
Peter’s 105TH Manchester Troop for eight years, serving half
that time as an officer in varying capacities.
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