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This is not the original Moston Branch of the Lancashire
and Yorkshire Bank, opened in 1911, but it stands on the same site. You can
see the original and learn about how it came to rebuilt in the article below
from Martins Bank Magazine. More than one hundred and five years on, Moston
is still serving customers, nowadays of course as a Branch of Barclays. Under
Martins Bank, Moston is a full Branch, open across the full six day banking
week. At the time of the merger with Barclays, the Bank union and staff associations
have rid themselves of Saturday working, and until cash machines can be
installed, there is “late night opening” for an hour or so each week…
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In Service: 1911 until Friday 26
October 2018
Image © Martins Bank Archive Collections
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In the article below from Martins Bank Magazine’s Summer
1958 issue, the photograph shows where the original branch was located –the
two cottages to the left of the image.
Later, you can read about the retirement of Moston Manager Mr Coope,
who retires from the Bank in 1966 after a forty-four year career…
MOSTON’S
VILLAGE BANK – “Ben Brierley Branch”…
 The photograph which accompanies these notes was kindly lent to
us by a customer of our Moston branch. It shows the original branch at
Moston, at a date estimated to be around 1870. At the time that the present
building was being erected on the same site in 1937, the Manchester City News
published a paragraph from which the following is extracted: “Moston's
Village Bank, which for 26 years has been accommodated in a converted bedroom
and kitchen in the 200-years-old Simpson Cottages at Moston Lane, is to be
demolished to make way for a new building to meet the needs of the growing
district. The branch was opened in 1911 when officials took over two of the
cottages formerly owned by the famous Simpson weavers and converted the rooms
as best they could. A third cottage of the group was taken over by a brewery
so that the old narrow white-fronted Museum Inn could be rebuilt." The
branch was located in the two cottages on the left of the photograph. In addition to the Museum Inn there
is another famous house across the road named after a more famous
Lancastrian, Ben Brierley, and this name has attached itself to our Moston
branch at which numerous Traders Credits and salary credits are received
through London addressed to “Ben Brierley Branch”…
  The end of May brought the
retirement of Mr C Coope, Manager of Moston Branch, after 44 years’ service
spent mostly in the environs of Manchester and its suburbs. Before his appointment to Moston in 1958,
Mr Coope had been Clerk in Charge at Besses o’th’Barn Branch for ten
years. At a local hostelry, about
thirty colleagues including Mr F Tunstall (Manchester District Superintendent
of Branches) met to wich Mr Coope a long and happy retirement. Mr W Warburton, his successor at Moston,
said that although he had known Mr Coope for only a short time, he thought
that customers must feel they were losing notg only their bank manager, but a
true and sincere friend. On behalf of
subscribers, a cheque was presented which Mr Coope intimated would possibly
be used to buy a motor mower to ease his gardening chores…
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