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The Remaining branches…

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. That we are still left with more than thirty of the seven hundred Martins Branches that were subsumed by Barclays says much about the strong foundations of the Banks that themselves came together to create the modern-day Martins Bank in 1928. We thought that it might be a fitting tribute to those branches still standing, and even those who are on the brink of being given the chop to feature here, showing in bricks and mortar, just how strong the name of Martins remains, more than fifty years on from the merger…

THE FOLLOWING LIST OF ORIGINAL MARTINS BANK BRANCHES THAT ARE STILL OPEN, WAS LAST CHECKED ON 15 APRIL 2023

CLICK THE BLUE LINKS TO VISIT THESE BRANCHES

	11-36-00 Bangor Opened 25 May 1964 by Martins Bank Limited
	11-66-02 Bexley Heath Opened by Martin’s Private Bank 1 Jan 1886 Demolished and Rebuilt as part of a modern shopping centre development in the 1970s
	11-81-00 Blackburn Darwen Street Opened by the Lancashire and Yorkshire Brank September 1903 Demolished and rebuilt by Barclays in the early 1980s
	11-53-20 Carlisle English Street Opened by the Carlisle and Cumberland Bank in 1836
	11-60-21 Castletown Isle of Man The Manx Bank opened a Branch at Castletown in 1882 The present branch was opened by Martins Bank Limited in 1933
	11-99-20 Cockermouth Opened prior to 1911
	11-35-30 Dewsbury Market Place Opened 1818
	11-60-40 Hexham Opened by the North Eastern Banking Company 8 Jun 1874 Extensively modernised and rebuilt by Martins Bank June 1961
	11-03-50 Keighley Opened by the Craven Bank in 1840
	11-05-50 Kendal Opened by Wakefield Crewdson’s Kendal Bank 1 Jan 1788 Extensively modernised by Martins Bank in 1963
	11-26-51 Kirkby Stephen Opened by Wakefield Crewdson’s Kendal Bank 1863
	11-27-50 Lancaster Originally opened by the Manchester and Salford Bank in 1868 Acquired by Wakefield Crewdson’s Kendal Bank 1883
	11-57-50 Llandudno Opened by Martins Bank in 1938
	11-80-60 Penrith Opened by the Carlisle and Cumberland Bank in 1894
	11-94-60 Preston Fishergate Originally opened by The Preston Union Bank Limited in 1869 Demolished and completely rebuilt by Martins Bank 1963-65
	11-08-70 Ramsey Isle of Man Originally opened by the Manx Bank 1882
	11-19-70 Rochdale Yorkshire Street Opened by the Lancashire and Yorkshire Bank 1875
	11-90-70 Skipton Opened by the Craven Bank 1791
	11-15-51 South Shields Opened by the North Eastern Banking Company September 1857
	11-12-80 Spalding Opened by Martins Bank 1959 Closed by Barclays in 1972 and then re-opened in 1974
	11-48-50 Wallasey Liscard Opened by the Bank of Liverpool 30 July 1906 CLOSING 24 MARCH 2024 at 12 Noon
	11-37-90 Whitley Bay Opened by the North Eastern Banking Company 1912 CLOSED 1 December 2023 at 12 Noon
	11-69-90 Worcester High Street Opened by Martins Bank 30 March 1937 Originally a branch of David Grieg Grocer