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The naming of villages in
Cumberland has lead to much confusion down the years, and Hesket
New Market, a small
market town is situated within the parish of Caldbeck. About ten
miles East however, you find more
Heskets – High and
Low Hesket for example, which are nothing to do
with Hesket New Market.
In 1921 the Bank of
Liverpool and Martins opens two new sub branches in the same area – one at Caldbeck, the other at
Hesket New Market. Both are controlled and staffed by the Wigton Branch, with
Caldbeck open on Wednesday
Morning, and Hesket new Market open on Wednesday
Afternoon. Whilst we can’t rule out
the need to save money in order to help pay for lavish new buildings in
Liverpool and London, we assume that here in Cumberland, business did perhaps
fall away from these branches, and they were both axed in 1932. Local business conditions may always have
dictated whether or not a bank branch is kept open, it’s not only a
twenty-first century phenomenon – in Martins case there is a cull of Northern
branches between 1930 and 1934. |
In Service:
9 November 1921 until 1932
Penrith Observer
- 8 November 1921 Successor
Rights Unknown - Image courtesy of the British newspaper Archive
Extracts
from the Annual Report and Accounts of the Bank of Liverpool and Martins Ltd
1921 © Barclays
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This is followed swiftly by
the first wave of the Bank’s Southern expansion. A careful “pruning” of the already
saturated Northern branch network frees up the resources to move into new
areas and for Martins to become a truly NATIONAL bank.
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