Lewis’s Department Store Liverpool is the last of the Lewis’s Stores in the UK to remain open into the Twenty-First Century, closure plans having been announced early in 2010 Sadly, it is more than twenty years since the closure of Lewis’s Bank, the accounts being absorbed into owners Lloyds Bank. The pictures on this page are currently all we have of Lewis’s Bank Liverpool in its heyday…
To mark Lewis’s Bank being welcomed into the fold, the entire staff of Liverpool Branch pose for the very first Lewis’s Bank feature in Martins Bank Magazine Winter 1958. At the time that Martins acquires the bank, many of Lewis’s staff members have distinguished service records - some up to thirty years - and Martins Bank Magazine includes the figures in the list of participants in this group photo:
	Back Row A M Ferns D A Dickie B E Thomas B Hughes J Marshall P M Howarth M A Hamilton J Barlow		Third Row J A James S Mitchell E Carr (10yrs) M Hanlon (10 yrs) E J Newland J Roebuck P Doyle J D Millar				Second Row D Price P M Jarvis M N Lawton A E Singleton (14 yrs) E Foxcroft R M Hynes M Dillon (10 yrs) F S Yates F E Reynard (29 yrs) W O'Dwyer (29 yrs) D Evans (15 yrs) A Lambert (30 yrs)		Front Row G M Dickinson N M George (30 yrs) J Stephens P B Corica Mr J A Baigent Mr F W Hall M G McDougall (30 yrs) W Bean (10 yrs) S M Littler D J Wright
					LEFT: This 1962 display in the window of Lewis’s Department store in Liverpool demonstrates to customers the good sense of being able to bank and shop in the same place!
					BELOW: The busy children’s counter is popular with parents too, as it enables the whole family to do their banking together on a Saturday afternoon…
Mr G A M Lee General Manager 1958		Mr E J Yates Assistant Manager 1964 Deputy Manager 1967				Miss Winifred V Bean Cashier 1966		Doreen Williams Cashier 1966
Mr Jim Baigent On the Staff 1967		Mr R A McLeod Accountant 1967
Sort Code:				11-93-90
and/or National Number:				74051
Title:				Liverpool
Address:				40 Ranelagh Street Liverpool 1
Telephone Number:				ROYal 8126
Manager:				Mr E J Yates Deputy Manager (1967)
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