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Martins’ District Offices are responsible for the control of the local branches that make up each particular district. This is achieved by a number of specialist departments within each District Office. Those departments are represented in our “District Office” pages by the photographs we have available of the people who worked in them. We will do our best to match photographs of staff to their correct department, but if you find an error, please let us know about it by sending us an e-mail. gutinfo@btinternet.com 43 Spring Gardens which is home to MANCHESTER District Office, is the Bank’s principal office in the city, being formerly the Head Office of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Bank Limited. It is upon the insistence of the directors of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Bank that the Bank of Liverpool and Martins, shortens its name to Martins Bank Limited in 1928. See also: FOUR CENTURIES and COAT OF ARMS. Nowadays the building at 43 Spring Gardens houses a highly commended Indian Restaurant. Importanly, the building, and its impressive banking hall remain largely as they were, but in the late 1960s, even when the Bank’s merger with Barclays was already on the cards, Martins had drawn up ambitous plans to knock down Spring Gardens, and put something altogether different in its place…
The Bank’s 80 year old building at Spring Gardens Manchester, once the Head Office of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Bank, and since 1928 the home of Manchester District Office and City Office, may be pulled down. Outline planning permission has been given for the Bank’s £1.25 millions development scheme which would replace the decorative Victorian building with an eleven storey block. Included in the project is an open space at the front of the building which would be decoratively paved and planted with trees. So the Bank may be helping Manchester to become a city of trees: already twenty-eight plane trees have been planted in Albert Square.
An impression of the eleven storey block that may take the place of our present office at Spring Gardens
Sir Cuthbert Clegg Board Member 1948 to 1968	The Rt Hon Angus D Campbell CBE Board Member from 1949 Chairman from 1960		Mr W D’Arcy Madden Board Member 1950	Mr H Mancknols Walton Board Member 1951
Mr Kenneth Stoker Board Member 1951	Mr Percy woodhouse Board Member 1951		Mr J F Simpson OBE TD Board Member 1955	The Rt Hon The Viscount Walberton Board Member 1958
Mr N G Lancaster MBE Board Member 1960	Mr I A D McLean Director 1962		Mr Alan Green Board Member 1964	Mr E H Priestley Local Director 1965 to 1968
Mr C G Seddon Director 1967	Mr R B Stoker Director 1967		Mr W Wormauld Director 1967
DISTRICT OFFICE – GENERAL STAFF
Miss Dorothy Eaton Manchester Switchboard Relief Operator 1947	Miss Maragret Lord Manchester Switchboard Operator 1947		Miss M P P Glover Relief Staff 1953 to 1968	Mr C A Shuttleworth District Office Staff 1957
Mr T R Froggatt Relief Staff 1957	Mr J Pendlebury Pro Manager 1959 to 1960		Mr F Kirkham District Relief Staff 1961 to 1969	Miss A C Mossop Centralised Posting Unit 1964
Mr W P Glover Asst Staff Manager 1967	Mr T E Hopley Relief Staff (Retiring) 1968		Miss M E Goddard Manchester District Lady Supervisor 1968	Mr M P M Brown Assistant Staff Manager 1968
DISTRICT GENERAL MANAGER’S DEPARTMENT
Mr C J Verity Manchester Assistant District General Manager 1938 ro 1946	Mr J Froggatt Joint District General Manager 1946		Mr G R Tarn Joint Manchester District General Manager 1946	Mr D O Maxwell Manchester District General Manager 1950
Mr T Cowpe Assistant District Manager 1952	Mr R Tonge Asst Dist Manager 1953 then District Manager 1953		Mr C Whiteley Manchester Assistant District Manager 1954	Mr E H Priestley Asst Dist Gen Manager 1958 then DGM from 1961
Mr J H Jennings Manchester District Assistant General Manager 1961	Miss M M Graveson Manchester DGM’s Lady Representative 1966		Mr N E Foster Manchester Assistant DGM 1966 then DGM from 1968
INSPECTORS
Mr Mungo Conacher Manchester District Senior Inspector 1935	Mr L K Holden Chief Inspector 1947		Mr H J Southworth Inspector 1949	Mr H S Mellor Inspector 1952
Mr J S Laver Inspector 1956 to 1960	Mr R Tanner Inspector 1959 to 1964		Mr T Derbyshire Inspector 1963	Mr J Speak Inspector 1964
Mr J W Ottaway Inspector 1964	Mr A Meadowcroft Inspector 1965		Mr A N Barratt Inspector 1965	Mr C Mitchell Inspector 1966
Mr R Paulson Inspector 1967	Mr J P Smith Inspector 1968		Mr R S Hilton Inspector 1968	Mr M Flint Inspector 1969
SUPERINTENDENT OF BRANCHES
Mr J Froggatt Asst Superintendent of Branches 1934 to 1946 Jt Dist Gen Manager 1946	Mr Harold Blundell Manchester District Superintendent of Branches 1949		Mr N R Manser Manchester Superintendent of Branches 1958	Mr F Tunstall Superintendent of Branches 1964
Mr D S Gallagher District Superintendent 1968
PREMISES DEPARTMENT
Mr D E Snelson Asst Premises manager 1967
Title:		Martins Bank Limited Manchester District Office
Address:		43 Spring Gardens Manchester Lancashire
Telephone:		061 832 4061/3585
District General Manager:		Mr N E Foster (1968)
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