11-77-30 Exeter Cattle Market

In 1963 Martins Bank is celebrating 400 years of Banking, and has begun an ambitious programme of providing branches to workplaces and other specialist targets for expansion, right across England and Wales. This ranges from several new sub-Branches at Universities, to a hospital, the Norgas site in Newcastle, two RAF Stations, and that staple of agricultural banking, Auction Marts and Cattle Markets.

In Service: 1963 until June 1969

Image © Barclays Ref 0030/0955

The Bank moves into Exeter’s Marsh Barton, alongside the competition – which includes Barclays – to provide Exeter Cattle Market with a banking service for four hours each Friday. This sub-Branch is controlled by the main branch at Exeter. As with so many of the newer additions to Martins Bank’s portfolio, Exeter has to fall on it sword at the time of the merger with Barclays, whose own sub-Branch is deemed to be more viable…