11-36-20 Burnley Brierfield

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In 1906, at the time of the merger of Craven Bank with Bank of Liverpool, the Craven Bank has fifteen main branches, including the Skipton Head Office, and a further twenty-six sub branches including Brierfield, near Burnley.

The later absorption of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Bank brings together a number of branches in the Burnley area, and between 1906 and 1969, if we include a new branch built in 1963, a total of EIGHT Martins’ branches and sub branches have existed there - 7 Hargreaves Street, 13 Hargreaves Street, Duke Bar, Manchester Road, St James Street, Brierfield, 111 Colne Road and Habergham.

Brierfield does enough banking business to warrant full opening hours each week including Saturday morning.

This building in Service: 1899 until 17 June 1988

Image © Barclays Ref 0030-0386

	One or two chimney pots may have disappeared, but apart from that, Brierfield Sub Branch is just about recognisable today. Once again we must thank Wadey (Robert Wade) for an excellent photograph, one of
many that he has contributed to us as a friend of the Archive. If you have images of Martins Bank’s Branches, or perhaps the staff who worked in them, please contact us: martinsbankarchive@btinternet.com. Brierfield survives the merger with Barclays, trading under the new name for almost twenty years before it closes its doors as a bank for the final time on 17 June 1988….

Image © Barclays Ref 0030-0386		Image © 2014 Martins Bank Archive Collections - Robert Wade