11-56-90 Newcastle Wingrove West Oakwood Temporary Branch

Martins Bank spends a small fortune in the 1960s upgrading old branch premises, sometimes even knocking down and completely re-building them. New branches are opened, and old ones brought into the twentieth Century. At Newcastle Wingrove is it necessary to move out of 446 Westgate Road and take temporary premises a short distance away at West Oakwood.

In Service: 1961 until 22 July 1963

Image © Martins Bank Archive Collections

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It typically takes anything up to eighteen months to complete a Branch re-building project, and on 22 July 1963, work on the new look wingrove Branch is complete and the temporary premises are vacated. Sadly we have not yet been able to track down an image of the temporary Branch premises, but on our WINGROVE page you can see how the permanent Branch looked both before and after its “makeover”…



*Mr A E Blaylock* *Joined the Bank here* *1916*	*Mr J P Cotton* *Manager* *1933 to 1950*	*Mr J Harbit* *Joined the Bank here* *1934 to 1935*	*Mr G R Taylor* *On the Staff* *1939 to 1939*	*Mr G B Varty* *On the staff* *1946 to 1946*	*Mr N L Watson* *Manager* *1950 to 1964*



*Mr A Dodd* *Joined Here 1962 to 1962* *On the Staff 1964 to 1967*	*Miss D L Jackson* *On the Staff* *1964*	*Miss D Robson* *On the Staff* *1964*	*Miss M Crump* *On the Staff* *1964*	*Miss T Fennessy* *On the Staff* *1964*	*Mr A W Warburton* *On the Staff* *1964*



*Mr C B Smith* *On the Staff* *1964*	*Mr D M Gresley-Grey* *On the Staff* *1964*	*Mr G F L Pearson* *On the Staff* *1964*	*Mr M Gibney* *On the Staff* *1964*	*Mr R J Pearson* *Manager* *1964 onwards*	*Mr W Teasdale* *Limited Authority* *1965 to 1969*



*Paul Thompson* *Joined the Bank here* *Feb to May 1968*