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1922 sees the continued expansion of the Bank of
Liverpool and Martins. Boosted by the addition of new Manchester and Halifax
districts, the Bank begins to open and plan for new Branches and sub-Branches
throughout the country, as well as securing the site on which ten years later
Martins Bank’s lavish new Head Office Premises will stand. Workington, starts life as a full Branch,
but is only open for twelve years, ending its short life in 1934, as a
sub-Branch to Cockermouth. The only reference to the closure of this office
is made in the Retirements Section of Martins Bank Magazine’s Summer 1968
issue: Mr A N Darvell (image below) is
recorded as “undertaking
the sad duty of closing our Workington branch”. Mr F
J Blacklock is listed as Manager in Kelly’s Directory of Cumberland
1930 (above), and Workington is downgraded to sub-Branch status in the same
year. |
In Service:
January 1922 until 31 March 1934
POW STREET WORKINGTON, 1920s/30s – Image
© Valentine and successors
Image © Kelly’s Directory of Cumberland
1930
Extracts
from Annual Report and Accounts © Barclays 1922, 1927, 1930 and 1933
Image © BT 1927 |
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We have few
images of the original staff, but we know from reference to the Annual Report
and Accounts of the Bank of Liverpool and Martins, and of Martins Bank
itself, that the Branch was managed from opening by Mr T Cleasby, succeeded
in 1927 by Francis J Blacklock, and in 1930 it falls to Mr B E Jones, Manager
of Cockermouth to be responsible for Workington until 1933 when Cockermouth’s
new Manager Mr P S Winn takes over. We assume that Mr Darvell is appointed
Clerk in Charge sometime around 1930. We would love to uncover more of the
story of this seemingly “doomed” branch. Sometimes, a small scrap of evidence can be vital,
and in the absence of information about a particular Branch, even an entry in
a phonebook confirming its existence, is gold dust… Interestingly Workington’s
address is recorded as both 31 and 33 Pow Street. More detail may exist in
local almanacs from the time the branch was open, and we will update this
page with any new details as and when we find them.
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