What was your very first bank account?

Who do you first remember banking with?

I know my first proper bank account as a teenager was with what was Midland Bank and I was very excited to have a Solo card!

Before that I had an account with Britannia building society with one of those pass books which you handed over and they printed into for you.

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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.

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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.

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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

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Though technically it might be when Midland moved me to their Number One account at eleven, as that is the date showing for the age of my HSBC account

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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.

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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!

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Abbey National was my first that I can recall too.

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RBS as a kid. They gave me a mini piggy bank that was branded and even had a key to open it!
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Not my image - mine was pink.

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i had 2 rbs and airdrie savings bank

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Woolwich BS for saving, and then Girobank when I started work.

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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.

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Furness Building Society, back in primary school

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Barclays in 1968 when they had green cheques and you paid 2d stamp duty to use one. R-

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GoHenry, or proper one was Nationwide FlexOne

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2018-2019 - Santander 1|2|3 Mini
Subsequent fraud ended in ombudsman ruling in my favour & then
Defecting to Barclays

I think HSBC with a solo card was the first account I remember - at least remember accessing it myself in my tweens.

I suspect it started life as a Midland accout at some point - there was definitely a midland piggy bank at home that belonged to someone.

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NatWest with the China piggy banks

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NatWest with a little piggy bank.

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! :grin:

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