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THE GRASSHOPPER

PENSIONERS’ CLUB

and affiliated with:

 

Our site is permanently preserved by the

BRITISH LIBRARY

in its UK Web Archive

WE ARE ALSO GRATEFUL

FOR THE GENEROUS

ASSISTANCE OF

Barclays

Group Archives

We would like to thank the many other archives, companies and individuals listed below – not least among them a small army of former Martins Bank staff members – who have given so freely and kindly of their time, help, guidance and support, including donations of items and images to our Archive.  Your generosity has helped us to grow online over fifteen years, and enabled us to bring you the social history of Martins Bank…

ARCHIVES

Ancestry.Com

British Banking History Society

British Film Institute

Cartmel History Society

Cononley History Association

Francis Frith Collection

Grace’s Guide

Liverpool Picturebook

London Picture Archive

Old Cumbria Gazetteer

Preston Digital Archive

Sedbergh & Dist History Society

The National Archives

University of Brighton

University of East Anglia

Ward Philipson Photo Memories

BANKS

Bank of England

Barclays

Coutts

H S B C

Lloyds Banking Group

R B S Group

BROADCASTERS

BBC Cumbria

I T N

ITV Studios

INTERNET SERVICES

BFI Internet

Freefind

Google Street View

Piciscan

Sid Designs

NEWSPAPERS

& MAGAZINES

Architect and Building News

Architects’ Journal

Boston Standard

Eastern Daily Press

Lancashire Post

Newcastle Chronicle

Nottinghamshire Live

Sunderland Echo

Westmorland Gazette

PUBLISHERS

Bonnier Books UK

MUSEUMS

Beamish

Knutsford Heritage Museum

Museum Of Soho

National Museum Of Computing

National Museums Liverpool

OTHER

Metcalfe Models

SPECIAL THANKS

David Baldwin

David Baxter

Judith Brown

Mike Brown

Anne Hindle

Geoffrey Kelly

Sir Brian Pearse

John Robertshaw

David T Phelan

Alan Thomond

Robert Wade

Stephen Walker

Bill Webb

Dave Watson

Andy Wint

Elaine Sugden

… and to those no longer

with us, whose help

was so invaluable:

Beryl Creer

Geoff Dunn

Graham Nicholls

Julian Taylor

Jock hendry

 

For their patience,

photography AND

computer skills:

The Snowdens : –

Julie, Guy, Benjamin,

Will and Kate

 

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Sandside

Milnthorpe

Westmorland

 

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we are grateful for the continued generous guidance advice and support of Barclays Group Archives in the building

and shaping of this online social history…

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