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It’s something of a tight squeeze at Martins Bank’s Caton sub-Branch, when it moves from its original premises at BROOKHOUSE ROAD, to this ‘affair’ tacked on to the village post office in 1966! It seems almost like the branch is an after-thought, AND it sits right on the edge of a busy traffic roundabout. When business was brisk, the customers might actually have had to queue round the block! Size isn’t everything however. At these new premises, Caton sub-branch serves the local people and businesses for 34 years, making a total of 54 years’ presence in the village for the Bank…

Blink and you’ll miss it!

This tiny notice, buried in the middle of a page of business advertisements in the Lancaster Guardian of 30 September 1966 is the only publicity given to move from Brookhouse Road to Hornby Road…

Image © NWPL created courtesy of THE BRITISH LIBRARY BOARD.

Image reproduced with kind permission of The British Newspaper Archive

www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk

This building in Service: 3 October 1966 until 7 April 2000

Branch Images © Barclays Ref 0030-0579

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DISTRICT BANK LIMITED

MARTINS BANK LIMITED

Title: Type: Address: Index Number and District: Hours: Telephone: Services: Manager:

11-27-50 Caton Sub Branch to 11-27-50 Lancaster 1 Hornby Road Caton Lancaster 215 Northern Mon & Thu 1000-1400 No Saturday Opening Caton 643 Counter service only Mr E A Youdell Manager (Lancaster)

Castleford

3 October 1966 15 December 1969 7 April 2000

Opened by Martins Bank Limited Barclays Bank Limited 20-47-60 Lancaster Closed

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