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Manchester District Office…
Those departments are represented in our District
Office pages by the photographs we have available of the people who worked in
them. Based on the information given in the pages of Martins Bank Magazine,
we do our best to match photographs of staff to their correct department, but
if you find an error, please let us know about it by sending us an e-mail to
the usual address: martinsbankarchive@btinternet.com No 43 Spring Gardens which is home to Manchester
District Office, is the Bank’s principal office in the city, being formerly
the Head Office of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Bank Limited. It is upon the insistence of the directors
of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Bank that the Bank of Liverpool and Martins,
shortens its name to Martins Bank Limited in 1928. See also: FOUR CENTURIES OF BANKING and COAT OF ARMS. Nowadays the building at 43
Spring Gardens houses a highly commended Indian Restaurant. Importantly, the building, and its
impressive banking hall remain largely as they were, but in the late 1960s,
even when the Bank’s merger with Barclays was already on the cards, Martins
was doing ambitious things – like appointing its first female Bank Inspectors
in Manchester, AND planning to knock down its Spring Gardens premises to put
something altogether different in
its place… Here come the
inspectors! Stepping out from Spring Gardens are Margaret Ashworth and Maureen Thomas, members
of a Manchester District outside inspection team and the first girls in the
Bank to take part in a full branch inspection. How have their male colleagues
reacted? 'They've been very patient and helpful/ Maureen said, 'and soon
accepted us—once they got over the initial shock.' 'We were apprehensive about breaking
into what has until now been regarded as the males' prerogative/ Maureen
remarked, 'but all our doubts were soon dispelled.' Manchester – City of Trees?
An impression of the
eleven storey block that may take the place of our present office at Spring
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