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  On 15 December
1969, the “Appointed Day” in the Barclays Bank Act, hundreds of Martins Bank
Branches turned overnight into Branches of Barclays. Ever since, that number
has reduced as ways of doing business along with competition, trends, and any
number of factors backed up by the ever more sophisticated abilities of the
computer have all done away with the need for there to even BE bank
branches. Just a little more than twenty years into the new Century, we find
most banks are closing the equivalent of one branch a day EACH – that’s
easily over 2000 a year. We began this feature thinking it would be a fitting
tribute to those branches still standing, and even those who were on the
brink of being given the chop to feature here, showing in bricks and mortar,
just how strong the name of Martins remained, FIFTY-FIVE years on from
the MERGER… Now that we
are down to single figures, that tribute seems more important than ever. The following list of original Martins Bank
branches that are still open, was last updated in April 2025. To visit them,
please llick on
the blue links. Please also note the
following features:
v Click HERE for a full list of branches
closed from 1968, when Martins became a member of the Barclays Group up to
the end of 2007.
v Click HERE to explore
(AND CLICK ON TO
VISIT) those branches closed between 2009 and the present day.
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Martins Bank Archive Collections 1988 to date.
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