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Extract from Martins
Bank Branch Directory © Barclays 1968
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At this point, some thirty years since the idea of student
branches was pioneered by Martins Bank, British Banks with representation at
UK University sites can expect to open up to and sometimes well over 1000
student accounts in the first two weeks of term. Students are showered with
welcome gifts, and the work begins to find those who are good with their
money and serious about becoming high earners when they graduate. A little
like panning for gold, the 1990s “student rush” was not for the faint
hearted, with twelve hour days common at University branches each October. In the 1960s however, things are not
yet quite so frenetic, and in 1965, Liverpool’s Brownlow Hill area is set for
redevelopment. It is time for Martins to leave its original premises, and
take temporary refuge in a wooden hut at 45 Bedford Street North. If you were a student at Liverpool
University at this time and by any remote chance took a picture of your
friends that might have this temporary Branch in the background, we’d love to
hear from you! To send images and
memories about this, or any of Martins Bank’s branches, please do get in
touch with us at the usual address, martinsbankarchive@btinternet.com.
Following extensive building work, Brownlow Hill is redeveloped, and
Martins moves into a brand new branch at ALSOP BUILDING Brownlow Hill, from where - until
29 January 2021 - student banking was dispensed for more than fifty-five
years …
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