11-04-70 Radcliffe

Bury Banking Company

At the time of the amalgamation of the Bury Banking Co into the Lancashire and Yorkshire Bank, their branch at Radcliffe is fortunate, along with those at Heywood and Ramsbottom to remain as full branches. Nonetheless arrangements are made for the former Bury Bank branches to be tightly controlled by the Bury manager. This is seen as a last-ditch attempt at clinging on to power by those formerly in charge of the Bury Bank. Just forty years later, a further amalgamation takes place which brings us the modern-day Martins Bank, and local politics is largely put aside with a view to smooth integration.

In Service: 1880 until December 1985

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Someone who is there to witness the joining together of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Bank with the Bank of Liverpool and Martins is Martins Bank’s Radcliffe Manager Mr G Healey. In 1964 is it time for him to embark on the happy road to retirement…

1964 04 MBM.jpg Mr Healey, Manager of Radcliffe Branch for the past fifteen years retired on August 31. To mark the conclusion of 44 years’ service in the Bank, he and Mrs Healey entertained some forty past and present colleagues to an excellent buffet meal at the Boar’s Head hotel Radcliffe. Mr Healey had previously been entertained to luncheon both at Head Office and at Manchester District Office.

1949 to 1964 Mr G Healey Manager MBM-Wi64P55.jpg After Miss J Ashworth had presented Mrs healey with a bouquet onbehalf of the staff, Mr W R S Smith on behalf of their friends, wished Mr and Mrs Healey many happy years of retirement, and in making the presentation of a pair of binoculars expressed the hope that this would prove useful and give enjoyment in their new surroundings, for at Okehampton, Devon, where they will be living, they will have Dartmoor on on hand, and Exmoor on the other.

Among those present were Mr F Tunstall, now Manchester District Superintendent of Branches, and Mr G Dawson, Mr Healey’s predecessor as Manager. Now aged seventy-five, Mr Dawson was able to speak from “practical experience” on how to enjoy retirement. Mr Healey’s reply was one of gratitude for the great number of friends he had made during his careeer, both inside and outside the Bank. Apart from four years’ war service, all Mr Healey’s career was spent in the Manchester District. He entered at Cheetham in 1920 and worked at Bolton and Pendleton Branches before entering District Office in 1941. He returned there in 1946 and was appointed Manager at Radcliffe in 1949.