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 We are indebted to Mary Robinson
who is featured here at the celebration party for the opening of Martins
Bank’s new Wellingborough Branch in August 1967. One of the last of the new generation of
the Bank’s Branches to open, Wellingborough joins the Branch Network at a
time when adding more and more offices is still seen as the answer to
increasing business and profitability.
Typical of most branch openings of the time, a cocktail party is held in celebration, and as a
vehicle to court prospective customers to leave their existing banks.
Pictured
along with Mary are Mr P Boulton – who is Clerk in Charge of the new branch
- Mr R M Whitlock manager of Northampton Branch, Mr W Turnbull Midland
District General manager, Mr S C Allen, and Mr C York. Some of the local
dignitaries at the party are named, as follows:
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In Service: August 1967
until 9 February 1979
Image © Barclays
Ref: 0030-3106
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Mr
C Forster (Chairman of
Wellingborough Urban District Council)
Mr B A J Taylor, (Chairman of Wellingborough Rural Council) and Mr
R H S Greenwood, (Chairman, Rushden Urban Council).
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