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The Adelphi Bank merges with the Lancashire and Yorkshire
Bank in 1899. Seven years before this,
the original branch at Hyde is opened on the site of 38 Market Street. There follows another sixty years of
banking on the site, including the mergers that lead to the modern day
Martins Bank. By the early 1960s, with
business at the branch increasing, the original branch building becomes unfit
for purpose, and Martins decides on complete demolition and the building of larger
“future-proof” premises. The result is
yet another dystopian statement of sixties optimism in concrete and
glass… |
In Service: 1892 until 29 May 2020
Branch
images © Barclays Ref 0030-1399
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Despite the costs of a large expansion into the South and East of
England in the 1960s, Martins does not completely neglect its base of
Northern branches. Many receive much
needed makeovers, and other are rebuilt or relocated. The rebuilt branch at 38 Market Street Hyde
is typical of the clean lines and minimal fuss of Martins’ 60s rebuilds. After a year or so in TEMPORARY PREMISES
at 25 Market street it re-opens in 1965, and a year later a
smaller but remarkably similar looking branch is completed at PETERBOROUGH. The
re-opening of a permanent branch at Hyde is heralded by local newspaper
advertisements (see above, right), informing customers that whilst the new
branch is now open for business, the temporary premises at 25 Market Street
is now closed.
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