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 Booker
Avenue is a self accounting sub-Branch to Mossley Hill Branch. It is
responsible for processing the work that comes in over the counter, and for
making what are known as “smaller” lending decisions. In the late 1960s it is amongst the first
of Martins Bank’s Branches to be given one of the newly devised post codes,
L18 4RA – a sad day really, as the prestige of being able to add Liverpool 1, 5, 18 etc., to the end of
your address is not exactly lost, but is certainly spoiled forever…
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Booker Avenue opens in 1939 and when the first
Clerk in Charge there, Mr F W Cowan is called up to serve in World War 2, his
place is taken from 1941 to 1946 by Miss Ida Woolley one of the army of women
Clerks in Charge who are drafted in to manage Martins Bank’s Branches at this
time.
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In Service:
Monday 10 July 1939 until Friday 19 February 2016
Image © Barclays Ref 0030-1658
Extract
from Martins Bank Limited Annual Report and Accounts for 1939 © Barclays
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Mr Cowan returns in 1946 and resumes his
role as Clerk in Charge for a further year, until he is promoted to Manager
of Liverpool 200 Scotland Road Branch. Just ahead of the merger in 1969,
the branch is given full branch status, and the incumbent clerk in charge
Mr J D Lunt, becomes the first Manager there.
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Having been a bank continuously for more
than seventy years, Booker Avenue stays open as a Branch of Barclays until
19 February 2016. Within days of its closure, the Branch is seen once more
proudly bearing the name of Martins! our Thanks to Gary Owens…
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Image ©
Barclays Ref 0030-1658
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Image © Martins
Bank Archive Collections - Gary Owens 2016
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