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A
branch of the Bank of Liverpool opens at 10 Liverpool Road Birkdale on 1 June
1894. It is the first branch of the
bank to be opend outside Liverpool, but still within Lancashire. Maybe it resembles something from a
Brothers Grimm fairy tale, or is it perhaps a little too grand? – but no,
Birkdale is the home, after all, of a Royal Golf Club, so perhaps this
Martins Bank Branch needs to stand out from the crowd. It certainly does that, but we’d rather
have a hundred such buildings than set foot in some of the
twenty-first century eyesores that pass for modern day bank branches, whose
teenage tellers are only able to do business when the computer says “yes” and
whose greyness fades anonymously into the background of the soulless shopping
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In Service: 1 June 1894 until 26 June 2015 Image © Barclays Ref 0030-2732 |
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Footballers,
golfers, in fact any passing celebrity (and there are plenty in this part of
the world) cannot fail to be wowed by the sumptuous wood panelling and the
distinguished air that oozes from every inch of this classic banking
hall!
Images © Barclays Ref 0030-2732 One of the last members of Martins Bank staff to retire
before the merger with Barclays, is Mr J H Walker, who by June 1969 has
clocked up an amazing forty-SIX years with the bank. In something of a cricket themed send off,
Martins Bank Magazine follows the festivities for us, in its Autumn 1969
edition…
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