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This is the online section of Martins Bank Archive, which re-creates the feel and flavour of the bank that was way ahead of its time, and whose bold design and innovation made a lasting contribution to  the swinging 60s. See WELCOME page for how you can contribute to this ever growing archive.

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FINDING YOUR WAY AROUND MARTINS BANK

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WELCOME

 

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Welcome to Martins Bank Archive, where we go to extremes to be helpful!

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Your gateway to hundreds of pages of information about Martins Bank

 

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COMMENT

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Your memories of Martins Bank and

A selection of emails received

NEWSLETTER

Keep up to date with news about what we are up to at the moment…

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OUR NETWORK OF 750 BRANCHES IS SLOWLY BUT SURELY MAKING ITS WAY ONTO THESE PAGES.

YOU CAN CURRENTLY MAKE YOUR CHOICE IN ONE OF THE FOLLOWING WAYS:

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MARTINS BRANCHES

BY DISTRICT

Discover the various districts of

Martins Bank and the branches

that belong to each one…

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MARTINS BRANCHES

BY COUNTY

Choose from a list of nearly 300 of our branches arranged in their pre-1974 counties…

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Lewis's Main

Let’s go shopping at

the branches of Britain’s

one and only department store bank!

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2009 Lewis's Liverpool the only remaining store

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NORTH EASTERN BRANCHES

In response to requests from several visitors to the site, and with the help of our friends at Barclays, we now features some rare images of branches in the north east.  Click HERE for details…

 

ADVERTISING

This feature has been expanded and fully re-written to give the decade by decade story of Martins’ advertising.

 

NEW BRANCHES

Quick links to the new branch pages that have recently been added to the site

 

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SITE MAINTENANCE

 

We’ve been giving the whole site an overhaul to make way for the expansion in the number of features and branch pages.  More details HERE

SPECIAL NOTE – Mozilla FireFox users

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THE PAGES AND FEATURES ON THIS WEBSITE ARE OPTIMISED FOR USERS OF INTERNET EXPLORER 6 OR HIGHER. USERS OF MOZILLA FIREFOX MAY HAVE TO ADJUST SETTINGS TO PREVENT ITEMS FROM APPEARING TO BE HEAVILY UNDERLINED

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THE BACKGROUND STORIES OF OUR PIONEERING BANK

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How Martins captured the mood of an age, with an advertising policy that was traditional one minute, and trendy the next!

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Merger with barclays,

 how was it done? Whilst seemingly at the top of its game, our Bank is swallowed by another – why?

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How Martins was responsible for Britain going decimal – even though the bank did not survive to see the new currency in action…

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Lavish interiors and commissioned artworks set Martins apart from the competition. Designing Martins was a serious business

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Who’s that at the counter? Why, it’s any number of famous people, animals and royalty just dropping in to say hello…

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Cash Machines

Mobile Branches Computers

a Drive-In bank or two 

Now there’s an idea, and we had most of them first!    

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Martins’ Role

In World War II is an honouable one, with many staff providing distinguished service to King and Country.

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Acting singing and dancing: Our staff let their hair down in a variety of ways giving us a unique insight into their leisure time…

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xMORE IN-DEPTH HISTORICAL INFORMATION AND FEATURES

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CONVENIENCE

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DISTRICT OFFICES

LEWIS’S BANK

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From quick cash to cheque guarantee

Local control tailors banking to your needs

The department store bank for everyone

The future is brought to you today by martins!

 

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WISH YOU WERE HERE

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COAT OF ARMS

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FEMININE FAYRE

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AN ACCOUNT AT MARTINS

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Postcards depicting

Martins’ progress

The grasshopper

And the liver bird

The story of women

In martins bank

A look at how we see ourselves in 1959

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MGEH

Martins Bank Archive  has no connection whatsoever with Barclays PLC,  but we are grateful for the continued and generous guidance and support of Barclays Group Archive in the building and shaping of this online social history.

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