11-84-40 Huddersfield Market Place

A good number of Martins Bank’s Branches have long and distinguished histories, none more so than Huddersfield Market Place which comes to the Bank in 1928 through the amalgamation of the Bank of Liverpool and Martins with the Lancashire and Yorkshire Bank. The building is the former Head Office of the West Riding Union Banking Company Limited which is absorbed by the Lancashire & Yorkshire Bank in 1902. In its heyday, the West Riding Union Bank issues its own banknotes, but as a small bank it can no longer survive independently. Banks all over the UK are made up in this way, from hundreds of smaller banks in a merger process that seems never ending in the late nineteenth and early twentieth Centuries. The branch at Huddersfield Market Place goes on to become part of Martins and eventually Barclays. In our picture we see it in its Lancashire and Yorkshire Bank days. We do have below a shot of the building from its time as a Branch of Martins Bank, but we are still looking for a clearer image.

In Service: Pre 1902 until October 1978

Image © Martins Bank Archive Collection: W N Townson Bequest

Images © Martins Bank Archive Collections



*Mr H W Williamson* *On the Staff 1910 to 1928* *Accountant 1927 to 1928*	*Mr H V Mitchell* *On the Staff* *1914 to 1915*	*Mr C Thornton* *Joined the Bank Here* *1915*	*Mr J A Parkin* *On the Staff* *1917 to 1946*	*Mr E V Fielding* *Pro Manager* *1923 to 1928*	*Mr H S Kaye* *Pro Manager* *1923 to 1928*



*Mr G F Howarth* *Joined the Bank Here* *1924*	*Mr D McNair* *On the Staff* *1927 to 1937*	*Mr A N Smith* *Joined the Bank Here* *1928 to 1928*	*Mr S M Lee* *Pro Manager* *1938 to 1939*	*Mr T Thornton* *Joined the Bank Here* *1939 to 1940*	*Mr T Whittaker* *Pro Manager* *1939 to 1947*



*Mr P J Crankshaw* *On the Staff 1945 to 1947* *Asst Manager 1965 to 1968*	*Mr Stanley C Owen* *Manager* *1945 to 1953*	*Mr P D Dyson* *Joined the Bank Here* *1946 to 1947*	*Mr Thomas Heald* *Accountant* *1946 to 1950*	*Mr G V M Earles* *Joined the Bank here* *1950*	*Mr J E Leake* *Manager* *1953 to 1963*



*Mr I A Bremner* *Accountant* *1957 to 1962*	*Mr A K Bromlay* *Asst Manager 1960-62* *Manager 1963 to 1965*	*Mr D M Pollard* *Pro Manager* *1963 to 1965*	*Mr G W Parkinson* *Assistant Manager* *1963 to 1965*	*Mr J Speak* *Manager* *1965 onwards*	*Mr A M Ellis* *Pro Manager* *1965 to 1966*



*Miss Pauline Parkin* *Machine Room Staff* *1965*	*Mr P F Sharpe* *Pro then Asst Manager* *1965 to 1969*	*Mr F A Beresford* *Pro Manager* *1969*