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The Bank of Liverpool and Martins opens a Branch in
the Chapel Allerton area of Leeds in March 1926. This handsome little
building proves its worth, by remaining open throughout the Second World War,
and surviving the Merger with Barclays by more than twelve years, being
closed in 1980. Under Martins’ ownership, Chapel Allerton has a sub-Branch to
maintain on Roundhay Road, which is known as Leeds Oakwood Branch.
Today’s use for the former Bank building at Chapel
Allerton is as an Indian Takeaway, and the pillars along the front of the
building lend themselves well to this new life, having been painted black and
topped with gold! it still manages to look quaint, and is the first in a row
of shops that were built onto the side of Chapel Allerton’s Library – an
altogether older and grander affair… For our very short Chapel Allerton
Feature, we must rewind to 1967 and the leisure time pursuits of a particular
member of the staff. Many of the features in Martins Bank Magazine are about
staff whose hobby or interest is not related to banking. |
In Service: 22 March 1926 until 2 June 1980
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In the case of Donald Stephenson, 1968 sees him
involved in a musical performance which will be heard by people all over Britain
on BBC Radio 4. At this time, Radio 4 is barely a year old, the BBC Home
Service having been renamed in 1967…
Bass-baritone Donald J Stephenson (Chapel Allerton)
accepted an invitation from the Royal School of Music to join some sixty
singers from all over the country in forming a choir to sing at St Paul’s
Cathedral for two weeks in August while the resident choir was on
holiday. On August 21, the choir
broadcast evensong on Radio 4, and on the last evening they joined the Abbey
choir in a recital at Westminster Abbey.
Mr Stephenson’s singing interests encompass light operatic as well as
church music.
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