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 Preston Trustee Department opens in
the Summer of 1965 in Martins Bank’s newly rebuilt branch at 38
Fishergate. The Manchester District of
the Bank covers a large and quite diverse area of the North West, so it is
felt that a second Trustee and Investment Office will help spread the workload. The new office is also situated roughly in
the centre of a line drawn between the Bank’s Kendal and Manchester Trustee
Departments.
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In Service: 1965 until 21 November 1969
THE STAFF OF THE NEW
PRESTON TRUSTEE DEPARTMENT
Left to Right: Miss A Walker, Mr D J Bradbury, Miss R
Crossling, Miss K Fish, Mr F Simpson,
Miss M Hodgson, Miss A Livingstone, and seated Mr R O Smith
(Manager)
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 In 1968 Martins brings together the
various regional Trustee, Investment and Income Tax offices, along with other
services to create Martins Bank Trust Company Limited. Where the original
Preston Trustee Department is concerned, there is currently only a small
amount of information available to us – we have some staff records shown
above and in the gallery below, and this extract from an article in the
Winter 1965 edition of Martins Bank Magazine, which showcases the new building
in which the Department is to be housed…
 Until last August the staff had spent two cramped and
uncomfortable years in temporary premises at 19 Lune Street and it is not
surprising that the pleasure and relief of working at last in a modern office
was still being reflected three months later in sighs of joy whenever the
visitor remarked on some feature of the new branch. An adjoining
shop, deep but with a narrow frontage, has provided a machine room parallel
with the main office and also an entrance hall, lift and staircase to the new
Trustee Department and the tenanted accommodation above. Our new Trustee
Office, established on the second floor, is the second in the Manchester
District and has an Income Tax section. Its services will cover a very wide
area and there is ample room for expansion as the business increases.
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