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In Service:
Before 1904 until 1922
Extract from the Bank of Liverpool and
Martins Annual Report and Accounts for 1920 © Barclays |
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SP2 The Palatine Bank opens its Seymour Grove sub-Branch
between 1904 and 1919, which along with its parent Branch at Brook’s Bar, is
inherited by the Bank of Liverpool and Martins when it takes on the business
and Branches of the Palatine Bank on 30 December 1919. Situated at 244 Upper Chorlton Road,
Seymour Grove Branch is listed as an office of the Bank of Liverpool and
Martins in its Annual Report and Accounts from 1919 to 1922 when it is
closed, the following remarks being noted in the Report of the Directors:
On a
modern map, Seymour Grove and Upper Chorlton Road are separate from each
other, and it is not clear why the Branch is called “Seymour Grove”, when it appears to be situated a good
five minutes’ walk away from
Seymour Grove itself. We can find
nothing to indicate the reason for the closure of this Branch, but we will
assume that it was a matter of economy based on the usage of this sub-Branch
– something we are all too aware of in the Twenty-First Century, as our bank
branches disappear daily from our streets …
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