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The Furness Peninsula is
where Cumberland, Lancashire and Westmorland line up almost side-by-side. It
is home to a large number of Martins Bank’s Branches and sub-Branches. Just north of Dalton, and directly across
the sea from Millom is Askam in Furness, which nowadays is joined with nearby
Ireleth into one community. This sub-Branch to Barrow was also known as
Kirkby Ireleth. |
In Service:
1894 until 1956
Image
© Barclays 1929
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The area was once rich in iron
ore, distinct traces of which can be seen in rocks and cliffs and on beaches
all over this area, particularly at
Roanhead. Martins
Bank’s sub-Branch at Askam exists for some sixty-two years having first been
opened in Duddon Road by the Bank of Liverpool in 1894. With yet more sub branches in the area at
Kirkby in Furness and Lindal in Furness, it is inevitable that Martins Bank
has a case of “overcrowding”, and gradually these smaller outposts of the
Bank are removed. That said, the
position in 1969 gives a far more general spread of local branches than we
see today from other banks – but in the twenty-first century there is
mobility for just about everyone and of course the internet; further back there was just COMMUNITY, a far more precious commodity perhaps, than any
information superhighway…
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