page_title: Bank of Liverpool
section_title: Martins Bank
hierarchical_section_title: Bank of Liverpool / History / Martins Bank
caption_attribution_description: English: Barclays/Martins bank HQ, Water Street, Liverpool, UK
context_page_description: The Bank of Liverpool was a financial institution founded in 1831 in Liverpool, England.
  In 1918, it acquired Martins Bank, and the name of the merged bank became the Bank of Liverpool and Martins Ltd. The name was shortened to Martins Bank Ltd in 1928.
  The successor bank was bought by Barclays Bank Ltd in 1969, when all of its 700 branches became branches of Barclays.
context_section_description: Now operating under the shortened Martins name, the Bank completed building the new London office in 1930 and the new Liverpool head office in 1932. New branches were regularly opened in the south of the country to complement the extensive network in the north. The period of acquisitions was over for Martins, the only exceptions being those of the British Mutual Bank in 1951 and Lewis's Bank in 1958. Otherwise, the Bank continued to expand organically with 62 new branches being opened between 1945 and 1957.
  Finally, Martins, the last remaining independent regional bank, itself succumbed to acquisition. A proposed three-way merger between Barclays, Lloyds Bank and Martins was rejected by the Monopolies Commission but no objection was raised to Martins being acquired by Barclays alone. In 1969 the Liverpool-based bank lost its independence to Barclays.
caption: New headquarters building, at 4 Water St. Liverpool. It was designed by the architect Herbert James Rowse in the classical revival style.
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