Martins Bank, opened for me by my parents. It came with a large plastic money box in the shape of a grasshopper. It is in the loft somewhere.
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Birmingham Municipal Bank, Yardley branch. When I was about 11 (late 1960s)! Passbook with handwritten entries. Later became assimilated into TSB. I was gone to Midland Bank by then (my first employer in 1975).
http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/birmingham/hi/people_and_places/history/newsid_9023000/9023930.stm
University of Birmingham now use the old BMB head office in the city centre as an extension of their campus. And Prof Carl Chinn, a longstanding professor of local history at Uni of Brum, was a classmate of mine at grammar school.
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A positive development for that building, that seemed a bit lost of purpose in my Edgbaston days
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Except when it was used as the police HQ in series 1 of âLine of Dutyâ⌠
Now weâre cooking with gas.
Is that a TV programme? 
One of Supt. Hastingâs (Line of Duty) great phrases.
Is that The Exchange? Opposite where the ice rink is at the moment? Its a cool looking building, we were meant to have an away day there, but I decided a day of listening to dreadful management speak wouldnât be off set by going to look at the cool building. So I pretended to be too busy with important research and cell culture that just meant I couldnât attend⌠
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Yes it is