11-78-30 Manchester Fallowfield

When days were old, and the Knights Palatine were bold, they built this fabulous little castle in Fallowfield. It reminds us of “Pippin Fort” in the 1960s BBC Television children’s puppet series “Trumpton”. The acquisition in 1919 of the Palatine Bank is key to the expansion into the City of Manchester by the Bank of Liverpool and Martins. None of the activities of the two banks overlap, with the Palatine Bank’s area practically adjoining that of the Bank of Liverpool.

1967 Fallowfield Staff MBM-Au67P23.jpg

In Service: By 1914 until 22 September 1988

Image © Barclays Ref 0030-0967

Newly acquired Manchester branches include the Palatine’s Head Office at Brown Street, along with Brooks’s Bar, Cheetham, Moss Side, Seymour Grove and Fallowfield. By the late 1960s large parts of Manchester are overdue for regeneration, and a number of Martins Bank’s branches are marked for demolition and redevelopment. This process had already been taking place in the North East since 1963. The Branch at Fallowfield is visited briefly by Martins Bank Magazine in Autumn 1967 as part of its tour of Manchester Branches that have seen better days. Although the Branch looks for all the world like a small castle, the Magazine seems to prefer the term “church hall appearance”…

1967 03 MBM.jpg Fallowfield Branch in the bed sitter belt to the South-East of Manchester provided us with a welcome change of air and scenery with its characteristic Palatine Bank “church hall” appearance, recent extensions at the back having made life in the office much less cramped. The in-built built-up village atmosphere survives and the business increases on the busy Wilmslow Road which may eventually be widened and result in the loss of yet another branch of distinctive character.



*Mr H A Paersch* *Joined the Bank Here* *1908*	*Mr J D Tomkys* *Joined the Bank Here* *1923 to 1924*	*Mr A Slater* *Clerk in Charge* *1936 to 1948*	*Mr L Richards* *Clerk in Charge* *1948 to 1951*	*Mr H Headey* *Clerk in Charge* *1957 to 1960*	*Mr K Livesley* *Clerk in Charge* *1962 to 1963*



*Mr A N Meyer* *Clerk in Charge 1964-67* *Manager 1967 onwards*	*Miss C R Potts* *On the Staff* *1967*	*Miss M E Slack* *On the Staff* *1967*	*Mr C Stock* *Relief Staff* *1967*	*Mr J E (Ted) Robinson* *On the Staff* *1967*	*Mr Peter R Foster* *On the Staff* *1967*