11-22-60 Liverpool Myrtle Street

The Bank of Liverpool opens a Branch on the corner of Bedford Street South and Myrtle Street in 1899. Not quite the type of corner aspect for which the Bank of Liverpool usually goes, whilst the Bank’s name can be seen in both streets, the doorway to the Branch itself is to be found in only one street rather than being on the diagonal.

Poor old Myrtle, she does look a little unloved in this photo, perhaps she is indignant at having to spend her final days as a sub-Branch to LIVERPOOL UNIVERSITY. She does at least survive until (but not beyond) the 1969 merger of Martins and Barclays, a better achievement than LIVERPOOL SCOTLAND ROAD which is bulldozed in 1966 to make way for the Mersey Tunnel Project, and from which some of the Myrtle Street staff shown below have come.

With no internal photographs to be found, and no visit to Myrtle Street by Martins Bank Magazine, this is all we are able to bring you for now. If however, you are able to help with images and/or information about this or any of Martins Bank’s 990+ other Branch buildings, please do get in touch with us at the usual address: gutinfo@btinternet.com.

In Service: 1899 until 12 December 1969

Image © Barclays Ref: 0030-1675

Robert Montgomery has spent a number of years taking photographs of former branch banks, and has kindly donated a large number of these images to the Archive. The contemporary view of Martins Bank’s Liverpool Myrtle Street Branch was taken in May 2012, when the building was in use as a café. These comparison photographs are a valuable resource, as they enable us to compare two different points in our social history…

Image © Barclays Ref: 0030-1675

Image © Martins Bank Archive Collections - Robert Montgomery



*Mr J W Ratcliffe* *Joined the Bank Here* *1917*	*Mr R J Lees* *On the Staff* *1939 to 1940*	*Mr D E Snelson* *On the Staff* *1946 to 1947*	*Mr C Harris* *Joined the Bank Here* *1950 to 1952*	*Mr J H Walker* *On the Staff 1951-57* *Manager 1959-66*	*Mr J Nicholls* *Joined the Bank Here* *1952 to 1954*



*Mr W G Morris* *Joined the Bank Here* *1952 to 1954*	*Mr A S McIntosh* *Joined the Bank Here* *1953 to 1961*	*Mr R L Cockhill* *Limited Authority* *1960 to 1967*	*Mr H G Campbell* *Manager* *1966 to 1967*	*Mr L Eadie* *Clerk in Charge* *1967*	*Mr K Marsden* *Clerk in Charge* *1967 to 1968*