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Not quite a century… A large number of Martins Bank’s
sub-Branches come from amalgamations with other banks, and the very existence
of a particular branch is sometimes down to expansion plans from the
nineteenth century or earlier.
Most of the banks we have today in
the UK come from similar backgrounds, with hundreds of smaller Banks
amalgamating, or taking each other over, and a national network of outlets is
the result.
The sub-Branch at Burton in Kendal
comes from the joining together of the Bank of Liverpool with Messrs
Wakefield Crewdson and Company’s Kendal Bank in 1893, which already has
a comprehensive coverage of South
Westmorland, with branches at ARNSIDE, MILNTHORPE, and KIRKBY LONSDALE, all within about ten to twelve miles of each
other. Transportation methods being what
they are in those days allows small towns and villages the luxury of a number
of services, including banks, that sadly have all but disappeared from most
of those places today. Indeed in the
2020s we have the issue of mass closure of Bank Branches even in larger towns
and cities. |
In Service: 1890 until 26
February 1980
Image:
Barclays Ref 0030/0488 |
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