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The telephone receiver has to
stay where ever it is first installed in your house. Surely then, in such a
complex world, surely to goodness BANKING is not so strangled by red tape, is
it?
Taxing Times… Martins’ Customers never quite escape the days of having to pay stamp
duty on some everyday banking transactions.
It seems quite strange now to think of being taxed for each cheque you
write or for paying someone by standing order, but that is how it is…
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1905 |
1947 |
1969 |
Three shillings and fourpence buys you 20 cheques |
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The rates and symbols
may change, but the duty remains. If you
want the luxury of writing a cheque, you have to pay the Government for it, as well as your bank! It could well have been such constraints on
freedom that put so many people off having a bank account, and fuelled the
idea that banking was only for the rich.
Even the humble regular payments system is subject to tax - To pay for setting up a standing order
(right) there is the physical process of licking a tuppenny stamp and sticking
it to the mandate form! Providing your
signature to the Bank is also within the eagle eyed view of the taxman when a
2d stamp is sometimes stuck to a customer’s specimen signature card (this is
a card is held at the bank to check that withdrawals were being made and
signed for by the right person).
Thankfully there are a number of services over which you and your bank
have some control, and this feature shows some of the items of stationery and
giveaways provided by Martins Bank to make having a bank account a natural
and easy process! |
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Stylish
and practical… These handsome wallets help protect your most valuable
connection with us – the cheque book, and serve to show everyone who sees
them that you’ve made the right choice for all your banking needs –
Martins!
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Featuring
the Bank’s full Coat of Arms… |
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or reserved for the Grasshopper only |
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Flower Power! |
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Image
© Martins Bank Archive Collections - Brian Roberts |
It is just about possible to make out the Bank’s name in
the golden lettering scattered in the midst of this psychedelic cheque book
cover. We’d like to think that the
legendary rock star and Martins Customer Jimi Hendrix might have been given
one of these when he opened his account! You can see a copy of his bank
statement on our page for the Branch he used in the 1960s, 79 EDGWARE ROAD, LONDON . The humble money box undergoes
a number of changes down the years, and we have several examples in the
Archive. You can see many more examples of giveaway items in our CHILDREN’S
SAVINGS and GIVEAWAYS features. |
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A slip for every occasion So, having
finally paid the duty and secured smooth passage for debits to your account,
is paying IN any easier to negotiate? |
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This slip is used to pay in at the counter of one Martins branch, when your account is held by another… |
Don’t forget to complete this slip when you bring your handy Martins
Bank HOME SAFE to the bank
for opening and counting.
Martins Bank’s standard paying in slip allows deposit of funds to a
current account . |
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Passbook
Savings |
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In the
days of savings account passbooks you really only need your face and your
book to pay in! It is the computer,
and its need to categorise and classify everyone by branch and account number
that effectively puts paid to an aspect of customer service that many staff
actually hate – working out which “Smith” it is who has signed a form with
otherwise no information to go on… x
x Towards
the end of the 1960s this savings account paying in slip is introduced ahead
of the Bank Giro Credit system. |
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No mixed coin, please! Staff at the counter are assisted by a variety of colourful paper bags
into which customers are expected to place exact numbers of coins for
weighing.
I
don’t understand my statement… For such a precise representation of “money in, money
out” to work, the bank statement should at least be neat. But these are the days when the same piece
of paper is fed into a statement printing machine again and again – in fact every
time there is a transaction on your account…
WITH SPECIAL THANKS TO BARCLAYS GROUP ARCHIVES AND MRS ELAINE
SUGDEN
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