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Up
and down the High Street… We needed some assistance to trace the origins of Martins
Bank’s branch at 338 High Street Gateshead, not least because there seems to have
been a fair number of Martins Branches up and down Gateshead High Street over
the years. So, we asked our friends at Barclays Group Archives to dig deep
into their records, and their copies of the Banker’s Almanac, and this, along
with a process of elimination, suggested that 338 High Street must have been
opened sometime between 1931 and 1934. |
In Service:
1933 until 6 May 1960 |
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Extracts
from Martins Bank Limited Annual Report and Accounts for 1933 © Barclays |
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This was later confirmed by the discovery of the opening
of the Branch being mentioned in the Bank’s Annual Report and Accounts for
1933. We
were also amazed to learn that Martins
Bank and its various constituents are recorded as having branches - at
one time or another - at 64, 76, 86, 215 AND 338 High
Street! 338 is a full branch until
1957, when it becomes a sub branch to 86. Then 86 AND 338 close in 1960 when 215 is
opened and takes over. It’s all just a
little bit confusing. An image of 338
is yet to be found, but there are a few of the staff featured in our gallery
below. As for finally untangling the
mystery of Gateshead High Street, we are indebted to someone who was actually
there at the time – Denis Richardson, who (as shown in the wording of this
newpaper advert from the time) was Clerk in Charge at 338 and joins Mr E F B
Middleton, the Manager of 86, as his deputy to run the new Branch at 215.
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