Yep
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Flexible friend. 
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My first bank was when I was 8 years old - RBS visited my school and gave us a session on money management. We all got applications to sign up - ended up with a big RBS piggy bank and RBS cuddly toys although cannot remember what the account was called.
When I turned 11 it was automatically upgraded to a Revolve account 
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I was probably about 6 or 7 when on holiday in Penzance in the early 90s (when Cornwall was not a gentrified or cool staycation, it was quite grim and downtrodden and you only went there if you couldn’t afford to go abroad like everyone else. Shopworkers didnt have fake smiles on and act polite for 3 months of the year. In fact there would often be a level of contempt or suspicion that you were not local, if i recall correctly).
For whatever reason (probably pasty related) i was sent into the post office by myself to withdraw my £10 birthday money from my national savings account, which was pretty new to me, probably only used it once to deposit the tenner in the first place, so apart from being a little child i didn’t even really know how it worked, but I remember having instructions from my parents to just sign my name and hand it over to the teller and i would get my birthday money out.
I did as instructed but, i dont know if he was a horrible old man or if my memory has been tainted by feeling embarrassed, but i cannot think of a horribler person i have come across since.
I remember being quizzed about where my parents were, like Home Alone but instead of being comical it was more like a police interrogation in a barely understandable accent to a 6 year old Londoner.
He then said my signature wasn’t proper. Not that it didnt match the one in the book but that it was just my first name written down and not a real signature so it wasn’t acceptable. He made me redo the signature in the book and along with some more bad attitude sent me leaving feeling humiliated with my £10 birthday money.
I doubt my parents appreciated that i’d been scarred for life and would be writing about it 30 years later when i went back to them.saying the man was horrible.
I should probably thank him though, because otherwise i probably wouldnt have been such a branch hater and enthusiast for fintech investing.
Cheers, horrible old man! 
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I think that’s so cool 
I’d use that now.
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I remember there was a good savings account with Nationwide in like 2010 or so. And it was a passbook one. And they issued me a passbook and I was like “WTF is that” and then I remember one time I came in and had to give the book to them to “update” it, I think they would stick it into a dot matrix printer to print out statement records into it.
I was very concerned and perplexed. I hope they have withdrawn all of that by now.
My TSB savings passbook (I was a TSB customer from age around 16 in 1992, through my college years until TSB took over Lloyds Bank in 1999) had an invisible signature in the cover. You had to sign a small piece of waxy paper which was placed over the inside cover, and this transferred your signature in UV ink onto it.
I still have my cool TSB card wallet. I’ll dig it out and post it to the card designs thread at some point.
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It was Lloyds that took over TSB
I think you’ll find, technically…
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This isn’t my picture, but my first experience of banking was exactly like this as a cashier for the Yorkshire Bank in-school bank. I counted the money, logged it in the passbook and on a ledger and bagged it to be sent to the local branch. The paying in book was identical to this stock image. Those were the giddy days of 1996. Shame I don’t think it is done these days.
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No they haven’t. Nationwide still have passbooks for some accounts, as do most building societies.
Passbooks were cool in my opinion, I remember starting in my first banking job in a branch and had someone bring a passbook to me and I had no idea what they were! Once I figured out they were mainly used by the older 70+ generation I thought it was a genuis idea, but if you lost it you’d have to start alllll over again (by which I mean keeping track of spending etc).
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This kind of in-school bank was how I got my Midland Bank account (which became HSBC of course), which I still have to this day.
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And having to be trigger happy on the pause to cut off the DJ as they inevitably came in early before the song finished! 
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I wonder if that ad also resulted in an increase in home taping, much like the more recent “you wouldn’t steal a car” ads 
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Ah Life back then, so much simpler
First bank was when they came into skool and it felt cool cos you got a check book and everything. It was a solo card, remember them?
Funny savings story. Mine you could actually drive-thru. You could either drop stuff off in a VHS box or go to the first window, “order” what you wanted and hand in your book then drive to the next to pick it up.
The printing of books up and counting of money always made me feel bad taking it out. Those sounds…
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The Drummonds Bank branch in Trafalgar Square still has the place in the wall where the drive-thru bank used to be.