Liverpool Office
The Liverpool office of Martins Bank is a Grade II* listed building designed by Herbert Rowse and opened in 1932. It has been described as Rowse's "masterpiece... and among the very best interwar classical buildings in the country." During the Second World War, the bulk of England's gold was moved to the bank's vault, the complete operation overseen by the bank's then Chief Inspector, Donald Devonport Lynch F.I.B. (1893-1982). This was dramatised in the film The Bullion Boys.
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