11-46-40 Hebburn

Hebburn lies just to the North East of Gateshead, and has been left off the map that was produced for Martins Bank by Geographia Ltd in 1968, and published in Four Centuries of Banking Vol II.

The Branch here was opened in 1880 by the North Eastern Banking Company, and passes to Martins through the 1914 amalgamation of the NEBC and the Bank of Liverpool, and the subsequent amalgamations that will lead to the creation of Martins Bank Limited.

In 2013 the town was immortalised in a TV comedy series, and Martins Bank’s Branch at Hebburn belongs now to a firm of funeral directors, proving rather neatly perhaps that Hebburn really is a place on earth…

In Service: 1 May 1880 until 1995

Image © Barclays Ref: 0030-1262

There is no recorded visit to Hebburn Branch by Martins Bank Magazine, but there are a number of staff images in the gallery below, and a short retirement article which is pulished in the Autumn 1946 edition, to say goodye to Mr McConway, who at that time had served as Manager of Hebburn Branch for nearly thirty years…

1946 03 MBM.jpg At the close of business on 30th June Mr. R. K. McConway retired after forty-seven years' service with the bank. At a little cerrmony held to mark the occasion Mr. E. F. B. Middleton, the new manager, made the presentation of a cheque from past and present members of the retiring manager's staff.

1918 to 1946 Mr R K McConway Manager MBM-Au46P23.jpg Mr. McConway entered the service at Hebburn Branch in 1899. After a period of service at Newcastle upon Tyne he became manager at Felling in 1911. He was appointed as manager at Whitley Bay Branch in 1913 and of Hebburn-on-Tyne in 1918, a position he held until his retirement.

Image © Barclays Ref: 0030-1262



*Mr H G D Middleton* *Joined the Bank Here* *1914 to 1916*	*Mr A H C Pickering* *Joined the Bank Here* *1916 to 1919*	*Mr R K McConway* *Manager* *1918 to 1946*	*Mr J M Dobson* *Joined the Bank Here* *1939 to 1942*	*Mr A S Potts* *On the Staff* *1941 to 1943*	*Mr E F B Middleton* *Manager* *1946 to 1948*
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*Mr A W Jackson* *On the Staff* *1947 to 1947*	*Mr A McDonald* *On Staff 1950 to 1951* *Manager 1969 onwards*