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Martins
Bank opens a temporary  Branch
in Worthing at 39 chapel Road in January 1938, moving to this permanent location
at 26 Chapel Road on Monday 18 July of the same year. As Martins Bank grows
in importance in the south of England, Worthing is chosen as the location
for an office of the Bank’s Trustee and Investment Services, whose address
is given as 24 Chapel Road.
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In Service: Monday 18 July
1938 until Friday 18 September 1970
Image ©
Martins Bank Archive Collections – Geoff Taylor Collection
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 Our
acquaintance with the Sussex coast has hitherto been limited to the
periodic passage through Newhaven en route for the Continent and so it was
with great interest that we turned our steps southwards from London on the
morning of August 9th. The choice fell on Worthing because Mr. and Mrs.
Whyte were members of our Swiss 1949 party and of this year's Italian Lakes
party, and a friendship had sprung up between us. To try to describe Worthing to our readers is a
somewhat difficult task because the resulting description might fit a dozen
other seaside resorts. There is the usual pleasant promenade, the pier, the
bandstand, the flower beds, the usual hotels with the usual names lining
the front; the
usual carefree holiday crowds in their colourful attire, and the wide sweep
of the English Channel dipping over the horizon towards the unseen coast of
France. Yet
Worthing has its own individuality and it is totally different from its
near neighbour Brighton to which we motored to catch a late-night train
back to London. One of the outstanding
assets of this town of some 70,000 people is an extremely beautiful
hinterland. One can be on the South Downs very quickly and there are
numerous places of interest quite close at hand.
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Worthing
Herald, Sat 16 July 1938
Image
© Northcliffe Media Limited. Images created courtesy
of
THE BRITISH LIBRARY BOARD Images reproduced
with
kind permission of The British Newspaper Archive
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After lunch we motored over to Arundel and visited its
magnificent castle, home of the Duke of Norfolk, hereditary Earl Marshal of
England. Although built by the Saxons in the year 800 it has been enlarged
and added to, but the surprising thing is that it looks as though it had
only recently been built. The stonework is whiter than the stonework of our
Head Office building and shows no sign of weathering at all on the imposing
turrets which rise at each corner. Unfortunately, the family has been
driven to live in a tiny portion of it as in the case of all these fine
ancestral homes nowadays. A modern, somewhat incongruous note is struck by
the sight of television aerials on two of the towers: they don't quite fit
in with the drawbridge!
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