The rapid expansion of the Bank of Liverpool in the 1880s brings us many of the Liverpool suburban branches we know today in Martins. The speed of growth is in fact so great as to necessitate the creation of an Inspector of Branches by the Bank of Liverpool – one of the earliest examples of the visiting inspectors still dreaded by hard-working bank clerks everywhere! In 1893 a branch is opened at Tue Brook, in imposing premises on the West Derby Road. Tue Brook is a standalone branch with no sub branches, and opens for the full banking week. This includes Saturday mornings until the reforms implemented by Barclays and others after the merger in 1969, when practically every bank extends its Monday to Friday opening by one hour each day, and abolishes Saturday opening. In the Martins tradition of being first, Barclays is at the front of the queue to re-open on Saturdays in the 1980s, (followed in the course of the next two decades by most other banks)!
Tue Brook ca 1937 Image © Barclays Ref 30/1687
In 1942 Miss N E Owen joins the staff at Tue Brook, and shows such promise that within six years she is promoted to a junior post in Staff Department, Head Office. Oddly enough Mr R H Price, Staff Manager in 1948 also joined the bank at Tue Brook – coincidence or “keeping it in the family”? Who knows…The following is a short adaptation from an article about the work of Staff department, published by Martins Bank Magazine in 1948…
{It is just a truism to say that we are all concerned with Staff Department from the moment of our application for admission into the service until the day when our record card is taken out of the pensioners’ file and placed among the archives in a little room outside the department. But though our concern is great our knowledge of what takes place to ensure the smooth handling of the various matter which affect the administration of a large staff, is usually slight}… {In Mr R H Price*, the Staff Manager, we are fortunate in having a man of wide understanding and sympathy whose genial personality had made him friends all over the service. He must know and remember as many people as possible, but he is ably assisted by a number of staff}… {The newest recruit to the Department is Miss Nora Owen, who joined the bank in 1942 and has served at Tue Brook and on head Office Relief before joining the staff of the department in September. she was educated at Calder High School}…
Mr H J Ashcroft On the staff 1904 to 1906	Mr A D Thomas On the Staff 1905 to 1906		Mr R H Price Joined the Bank Here 1914 to 1916	Mr J H Woodfine Joined the Bank Here 1918
Mr D G Telfer Joined the Bank Here 1941 to 1942	Miss N E Owen Joined the Bank Here 1942		Mr A D Basrlow On the Staff 1951 to 1956	Mr H A G Birchall Manager 1954 to 1961
Mr L D Tunna Manager 1961 to 1966	Mr S J Crisp Manager 1966 onwards		Mr R S Thomas Pro Manager 1966 to 1968	Mr J Bickerstaff Pro Manager 1968 onwards
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Title:		11-68-80 Liverpool Tue Brook Closed 15 May 1998
Type:		Full Branch
Address:		611 West Derby Road Liverpool 13
Hours:		Mon to Fri 1000-1500
		Saturday 0900-1130
Telephone:		STOneycroft 4654/5
Services:		Nightsafe Installed
Manager:		Mr S J Crisp Manager
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