11-1 London 182 Euston Road - Martin's Private Bank

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Before the amalgamation in 1914 of the Bank of Liverpool with Martin’s Private Bank, the influence of the Grasshopper was felt through the presence of the Head Office at 68 Lombard Street London, and branch offices of the bank scattered mainly across the far South-East of England – Kent, and a few outposts in Sussex. There is little evidence of any kind of large-scale expansion before the mergers that took place between 1914 and 1928 to create the modern-day Martins Bank, with its national network of branches and departments. However, (and for reasons which are not clear to us), Martin’s Bank opens a new branch at Euston Road, London in 1909. Thanks once again to the existence of the “Architectural Review”, we now hold a copy of this wonderful image of the branch which was published in its July 1909 issue.

In Service: 1909 until 25 December 1911

Image © Martins Bank Archive Collections

Our friends at Barclays have kindly supplied the letters displayed below, which set the scene for the decision of the Bank to close of the Branch on Christmas Day of 1911. We note that Martin’s Private Bank was still styled with an apostrophe, each of the letters below refers to the title of the bank WITHOUT one!