11-60-90 Wolverhampton Waterloo Road

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By 1968 Martins’ Branch at Wolverhampton Queens Square has been open some thirty-two years, and has outgrown itself by dint of expanding business. The Bank therefore takes the opportunity to open purpose-built premises, nearer to the town centre in Waterloo Road, which it hopes will serve its customers for years to come. Indeed, this new branch is good enough for Barclays, who keep it open well beyond the merger until 1991, technically giving Martins a fifty-five-year presence in Wolverhampton.

Our thanks go to Keith Mason for spotting the exterior photo of our Branch on the excellent Facebook Group Page – Wolverhampton in Old Photographs, and to the group themselves for allowing us to show it here. The Staff Gallery below includes only those listed as working at Wolverhampton Waterloo Road from 1968 onwards. More staff can be found on our WOLVERHAMPTON QUEEN SQUARE page.

Tastefully restored in its new role as a Solicitors’ Office, only the upstairs windows give a clue that this was once Martins Bank Waterloo Road…

Image – Wolverhampton in old Photographs

Image – Keith Mason

This building in Service: 1968 until 9 September 1991

Image Courtesy Wolverhampton In Old Photographs

Image © Barclays Ref 0030-3263

BARCLAYS BANK LIMITED

Queen Square

Trustee

Chapel Ash

474 Stafford Road Oxley

Snow Hill

DISTRICT BANK LIMITED

52 Lichfield Street

LLOYDS BANK LIMITED

Queen Street

Clarendon Street Trustee

Chapel Ash

Salop Street

Tettenhall

Whitmore Reans

MARTINS BANK LIMITED

Queen Square

Waterloo Road

MIDLAND BANK LIMITED

Dudley Road

Fordhouses

Litchfield Street

Met Bank Chambers Ttee

Penn Fields

Queen Square

Salop Street

Whitmore Reans

NATIONAL PROVINCIAL BANK

Queen Street

Chapel Ash

UNITED DOMINIONS TRUST

Lichfield Street

WESTMINSTER BANK LIMITED

79 Darlington Street

60 Lichfield Street

School Street

Fordhouses

WILLIAMS DEACON’S BANK

35 Princess Street

Mr G B Hibbert

Manager

1968 to 1969

Mr G S Gallagher

Manager

1969 onwards

Mr M Youngson

Assistant Manager

1969 onwards

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11-60-90 Wolverhampton Waterloo Road

Full Branch

21 Waterloo Road Wolverhampton Staffordshire

588 Midland

Mon to Fri 1000-1500

Saturday 0900-1130

Wolverhampton 29581/3

Night safe

Mr G S Gallagher Manager

Wolverhampton

1968

15 December 1969

9 September 1991

Opened by Martins Bank Limited

Barclays Bank Limited 20-97-92 Wolverhampton Waterloo Road

Closed

Woodburn

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