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Leading a double
life?
 Tubs Hill sub branch has actually been open since
1931, but only becomes known as Tubs Hill in 1968. For the intervening
thirty-seven years, this building is actually Martins Bank Sevenoaks
Branch! It was always the intention
that the Bank would find larger premises, and also ones that were much closer
to the town centre than St Botolph’s Road. However, for one reason or
another, the move to London Road does not take place until the merger with
Barclays is almost complete. Whilst
Tubs Hill Sub Branch is not responsible for processing its own work on the
premises, it is staffed and open for the full banking week including Saturday
mornings. Additional branches have been opened in Kent ever since the
creation of the Bank of Liverpool and Martins in 1918, and this is an
important part of the country for Martins Bank. There are fifteen original
“grasshopper” branches of Martin’s Private Bank, and amongst them, many of
the original Kentish branches are, by the 1930s, being subsumed into the
ever-growing sprawl of “Outer London”. That the Bank continues to open
Branches in Kent right up to the Merger, shows that new areas of local wealth
often bring good personal and business connections with them.
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In Service: 1931 until 30 November 1992
(but see also additional history at foot of page)
All Branch Images ©
Barclays Ref 0030-2589
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Whether the original choice
for the location of a Martins Bank Branch is good for the long term, might be
measured by how long that Branch has continued to survive under Barclays’
ownership. When compared with the fate of some of the larger
sub offices of the Bank, Tubs Hill actually fares quite well and remains open
until the end of 1992.
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