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(restored) © Martins Bank Archive Collections
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In Service: 16 August 1965 until 21 November 1969
The Staff of the new Preston Trustee Department
Left to Right: Miss A Walker, Mr D J Bradbury,
Miss R Crossling, Miss K Fish, Mr F Simpson,
Miss M Hodgson, Miss A Livingstone, and seated Mr
R O Smith (Manager)
 Preston Trustee Department opens in
the Summer of 1965 on the second floor of Martins Bank’s newly rebuilt branch
at 38 Fishergate. The Manchester
District of the Bank covers a large and quite diverse area of the North West,
so it is felt that a second Trustee and Investment Office will help spread
the workload. The new office is also
situated roughly in the centre of a line drawn between the Bank’s Kendal and
Manchester Trustee Departments. In
1968 Martins brings together the various regional Trustee, Investment and
Income Tax offices, along with other services to create Martins Bank Trust
Company Limited. Where the original Preston Trustee Department is concerned,
there is currently only a small amount of information available to us – we
have some staff records shown above and in the gallery below, and this
extract from an article in the Winter 1965 edition of Martins Bank Magazine,
which showcases the new building in which the Department is to be housed…
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 Until last August the staff had spent two cramped and
uncomfortable years in temporary premises at 19 Lune Street and it is not
surprising that the pleasure and relief of working at last in a modern office
was still being reflected three months later in sighs of joy whenever the
visitor remarked on some feature of the new branch. An adjoining
shop, deep but with a narrow frontage, has provided a machine room parallel
with the main office and also an entrance hall, lift and staircase to the new
Trustee Department and the tenanted accommodation above. Our new Trustee
Office, established on the second floor, is the second in the Manchester
District and has an Income Tax section. Its services will cover a very wide
area and there is ample room for expansion as the business increases.
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