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The Bank of Liverpool and Martins opens up shop in
the beautiful North-East coastal village of Bamburgh in July 1924. Martins
Bank has branches
in all manner of remote and romantic places, and Bamburgh certainly ticks
those boxes, having its own Castle, being the seat of the Kings of
Northumbria, and also Grace Darling, who famously rescued shipwrecked sailors
at nearby SEA
HOUSES, is buried here.
Although obviously a very
important part of a historic British institution, Martins Bank’s sub-Branch at
Bamburgh is nowhere near as romantic as a castle, and whilst we know that
they always go to extremes to helpful we don’t expect any of
the staff ever to have rescued a stranded sailor.
In 1958 the Bank decides to move to better
premises in Bamburgh, at NO 9 LUCKER ROAD,
from where, under both Martins and Barclays, a banking business is transacted
for a further eighteen years… |
In Service:
Tuesday 8 July 1924 until Monday 29 September 1958
Images © Martins Bank Archive Collections
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