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Calendar Girls?
A Branch at Bare is opened in 1923 by the Bank of
Liverpool and Martins. Fashionable
Bare is situated at the “posh end” of Morecambe, with its little row of
shops, railway station, and of course, the Bare Women’s institute, and the
Bare Boys’ Brigade (or are they simply
legend?) The
Bare newsagent and the Bare chemist would probably also be in the realms of
our schoolboy smut, so we’ll stop right there…
Not quite “open all hours”…
 The
standard opening hours at most of Martins’ main branches, and at some
sub-Branches are Monday to Friday 10am to 3pm and on Saturdays 9.30am to
11am. Whilst it is not always
possible to open at these times everywhere, the Bank always tries to provide
the best possible opening hours in the smaller villages and suburban areas.
This helps the Bank to make the best use of its buildings and staff. Bare
opens on what are probably the best days of the week to suit all customers,
Monday, Wednesday and Friday. This image of the Branch is from the 1940s - by
the time of the 1969 merger with Barclays, the branch opens until 1pm
on each of its business days.
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In Service: 1923 until
Friday 7 April 2000
Image ©
Barclays Ref: 0030-0091
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The Bank of Liverpool and Martins opens a large number of
Branches in 1923, and Bare is listed amongst them in the following extract
from that year’s Annual Report and Accounts:
Extract from Bank
of Liverpool and Martins Limited Annual Report and Accounts 1923 - Image ©
Barclays
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 Bare is seen below standing
empty, in this contemporary image from April 2016. Over the next eight
years, many former branches will join the merry-go-round of housing businesses
for a while, then becoming empty again…
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Image © Barclays Ref: 0030-0091
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Image © Guy J Snowden 2016
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DISTRICT
BANK LIMITED
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MARTINS
BANK LIMITED
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MIDLAND
BANK LIMITED
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Title:
Type:
Address:
Index Number and District:
Opening Hours:
Telephone:
Services:
Manager:
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Martins Bank Limited
11-12-60 Bare
Sub to 11-12-60
Morecambe
Princes Crescent Bare
Morecambe Lancashire
218
Northern
Mon, Wed and Fri
1000-1300
No Saturday opening
Morecambe 4625/6
No Nightsafe
H Halstead Manager
(Morecambe)
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Bangor
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1923
3 January 1928
15 December 1969
7 April 2000
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Opened by the Bank of
Liverpool and Martins
Martins Bank Limited
Barclays Bank Limited
20-58-07* Morecambe
Closed
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Barnard Castle
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* Barclays Morecambe Euston Road
assumes the sorting code 20-58-05
when Barclays’ Branch at
Cheapside Branch is closed down in 1971.
Intellectual Property Rights ©
Martins Bank Archive Collections 1988 to date.
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