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Almost off the edge of our
map and into the sea, is Wallasey, but this is certainly not an
insignificant coatal village – far from it:
For here, right at the end of the Wirral Peninsula, at various points in the history of Martins Bank, is
home to NINE Birkenhead and SEVEN Wallasey Branches! Poulton Road, Liscard, Wallasey, is opened by the Bank of Liverpool and Martins in 1927, as a sub branch to Seacombe, and operates a full counter service over the six
day banking week. If you think that
closing bank branches is a Twenty-First
Century phenomenon, think again. |
In Service:
11 July 1927 until 28 March 1934
Extract
from Martins Bank Limited Annual Report and Accounts for 1927 – © Barclays |
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Martins Bank’s own first
round of branch cuts is made in the early 1930s, the likely cause being the
amount of money to be spent on a new Head Office and a rebuilt London
Office. The spotlight is thrown onto
many tiny offices of the bank, some of which open only for an hour or two
each week, others whose footfall of customers is not enough to sustain them
long term, and the axe falls many times between 1931 and 1935. Poulton Road lasts until the end of March
1934…
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