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The Carlisle and Cumberland
Bank provides Martins Bank with two branches in Carlisle – English Street and Botchergate - when it amalgamates in 1911 with the Bank of
Liverpool. The Bank of Liverpool and Martins embarks on a prolific period of
Branch building and opening up to the point of its amalgamation with the
Lancashire and Yorkshire Bank, which creates Martins Bank in 1928.
Extracts
from the Annual Report of the Bank of
Liverpool and Martins Ltd 1926 © Barclays
A further two sub-Branches
to Carlisle are opened at Dalston (1926) and STANWIX (1928), creating
a modest local network of branches. There will also be a short-lived
sub-Branch in the Lanes Shopping Area in the late 1950s. By 1969 however,
only the two full branches remain, and Carlisle’s own little “empire” has
gone. Dalston is the first to close, in 1940, as a
result of staff being called up to fight in the Second World War. |
In Service:
22 March 1926 until 1940
Image © Martins Bank Archive Collections
- Andrew Johnstone
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It is common practice to
close down or mothball the smaller branches for the duration of hostilities,
although wherever possible Martins Bank’s Branches are managed and run by an
army of women clerks. After the war
Martins takes the decision to keep a number of branches permanently closed,
and Dalston is one of them.
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