|
OUR SITE USES FRAMES TO ACHIEVE A NOSTALGIC LOOK – IF
YOU CANNOT SEE A MENU TO THE LEFT OF THIS PAGE, PLEASE CLICK ON THE ‘HOME’
BUTTON ABOVE
|
|
“Bury the rock” sounds like a strange
instruction, but no, The Rock is part of the town of Bury. At the entrance to Clarence Park is a large
rock, said to have arrived there through the actions of ice age
glaciers. The area was once known as
Fleet Street, indeed Martins’ Branch at 1 The Rock was known in its days as a
branch of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Bank (see image below) as Bury Fleet
Street Branch. The Lancashire and Yorkshire Bank Manager at that time was Mr
P G Gow, with Mr W A Brown acting as sub manager.
Image © Martins
Bank Archive Collections W N Townson Estate
|
This building in Service: Pre 1888 until 3 February 1969
Image © Barclays
Ref 0030-0495 |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
In the 1960s, Martins Bank has four branches
in the Bury area, the main office is found at 26 SILVER STREET, with sub branches at TOTTINGTON, and of course The Rock. A
separate branch is located at Bury Bridge, ELTON. The Rock makes it through the merger with
Barclays, although the building is nowadays home to an insurance company.
Nevertheless, Barclays still has a link with this part of Bury with a branch
situated nearby at 1 Central Street, The Rock – as of May 2026, this one of
only 200 Barclays branches still open, it actually serves customers SIX days a
week, which is amazing when banks have been pushing customers out of their
branches for more than twenty years… |
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Intellectual Property Rights ©
Martins Bank Archive Collections 1988 to date. |
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
<