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 Worthing Trustee and Investment
Office opens in 1967, just a year or so before Martins Bank combines the
businesses of all of its regional Trustee offices into Martins Bank Trust
Company Limited.
The new Office opens next door to
Martins Bank’s existing Worthing Branch, and we are currently looking for
an image.
Image © Martins
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In Service: 1 March 1967 until 21 November 1969
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In the meantime we will all have to
imagine a shiny new office in one of the shop units seen here, either side
of the Branch! Martins Bank
Magazine does not visit Worthing Trustee, and we have only one image for
our Staff Gallery below. If you can help with images or memories of working
at this office, please do get in touch with us at the usual address – gutinfo@btinternet.com. Martins Bank has a policy of looking
first to its own experienced Staff to fill vacancies, before recruiting
from outside the Business.
When Mr B L Skiming is appointed
Manager of Worthing Trust Company in 1968, he has already accumulated
twenty-four years with the Bank, the last fifteen or so working in Trustee
and Investment departments. In 1953
after a five-year tour of Branches in the Liverpool District, he joins
Liverpool Trustee. Ten years later
he moves into the Northern District, to take up a post at Kendal
Trustee. Two years after that he is
appointed Pro Manager, the first step on the Management ladder. He moves to Worthing in 1967, with
another promotion, this time as Trust Controller of the newly opened
Trustee Office. This is the first - and lowest - appointed role in the Bank,
and at Branch level it equates to the position of “Pro Manager” or “Clerk
In Charge. However, Mr Skiming does
not have to wait long to climb the next rung of the ladder, and his
appointment as Manager of Worthing Trust Company comes early in 1968.
An advertisement similar to this
one will have been placed in newspapers across the South of England. It
explains that the coverage area Worthing Trustee Office will be quite a
large geographical area - the Southern counties and the South Coast. The advertisement is not terribly
eye-catching, an image of some kind placed at the top might have been more
appealing…
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