Abbey National. I had a kids account that my parents had opened. Kept that for yeeeears and then I think turned it into a Santander once they were bought over. Think my first proper account outside of that might have been a Bank of Scotland when I was a teenager.
RBS. Was very excited to have the card and paying in book, and I had this little folding PDA/phone book/calculator/whatever else thing, may have had some games on it, which was RBS branded and came with the account.
Nationwide and Abbey Book accounts, then a proper card account with Abbey, and now can’t even remember how many and whats main account, all in used different ways lol
Remember taking a Yorkshire Bank passbook and a small amount of money to school each week when I was at junior school. I have no recollection of what happened to that account.
My first “proper” bank account was a National Westminster Bank current account when I was 16. They gave me a cheque book but I had to wait a year for a cashpoint card, and until I was 18 for a cheque guarantee card.
Halifax - I know it wasn’t a bank back then. A passbook and a little yellow house as a gift.
Used to love going in branch with cash. The smell of the book, the noise the printer made on the book.
The good olde days that I do in a way miss. Certainly wouldn’t have been making bank transfers in seconds!
NatWest Student account, with a Solo card. Pretty big deal for me back then to have a debit card, even though Solo wasn’t accepted everywhere and I wasn’t eligible for a Switch card.
Then we moved to a tiny village that only had one bank within about 10 miles. It was an HSBC so I opened my first real current account with them when I was 11. I’m nearly 40 and I still have it!