Either of these can be arranged, perhaps we should have a vote?Critique wrote:If we're keeping up with the other place the thread will need to opened manual at around half 10m as everyone has slept in by mistake, or a few minutes early with the site crashing just before 9am...Nick Harvey wrote: open automatically at 9am Monday?
Another High Street Rebrand
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METROPOLL.Pete wrote:Either of these can be arranged, perhaps we should have a vote?Critique wrote:If we're keeping up with the other place the thread will need to opened manual at around half 10m as everyone has slept in by mistake, or a few minutes early with the site crashing just before 9am...Nick Harvey wrote: open automatically at 9am Monday?
Nobody likes a smart arse but, 'thead'?
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Yep - got a snazzy booklet through the post at the start of this week. Lots of information of the bank's ethos.Pete wrote:
I got my Welcome to TSB letter the other day. Have Lloyds ones gone out too?
Snatches of the new font around the (newly refitted) Ipswich branch already, ahead of Monday's big reveal when the temporary signage will come down. And the change back to the Lloyds Bank name means that the old sign emblazoned into the glass above the door can be visible again. Lovely!
I think they've always kept it visible, haven't they? Also, there's a really weird little Lloyd's TSB around the corner from the main Lloyd's on Cornhill, which has some cashpoints inside a room and I've never really understood it - would there be a reason for them having this small room with some cashpoints in around the corner from the actual bank? It means there are three Lloyd's TSBs within 50m of each other at the moment, with two literally opposite each other and then the weird little thing around the corner.madmusician wrote:Yep - got a snazzy booklet through the post at the start of this week. Lots of information of the bank's ethos.Pete wrote:
I got my Welcome to TSB letter the other day. Have Lloyds ones gone out too?
Snatches of the new font around the (newly refitted) Ipswich branch already, ahead of Monday's big reveal when the temporary signage will come down. And the change back to the Lloyds Bank name means that the old sign emblazoned into the glass above the door can be visible again. Lovely!
Also, RE that branch opposite the main branch mentioned earlier yet barely used, it seems it was a Post Office back in the day, and indeed became a TSB at some point and then a Lloyds TSB post-merger.
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We got our Lloyds ones the day before the TSB ones.Pete wrote:I got my Welcome to TSB letter the other day. Have Lloyds ones gone out too?
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That small room is actually part of the main North Lloyds TSB, and was there for cashpoint use before the additional cashpoints were added outside the front of the branch 10 or so years ago, I think. It certainly doesn't count as a separate branch - it's an additional bank of cashpoints for the main branch, and also gives people DepositPoint access 24/7, as it doesn't close. I lived in Cheltenham for a year (for a gap-year job) and the Lloyds TSB that I used there had something very similar, except in that case the cashpoints and deposit slot were in a kind of hallway to the bank. So it's not an unusual idea, AFAIK.Critique wrote:I think they've always kept it visible, haven't they? Also, there's a really weird little Lloyd's TSB around the corner from the main Lloyd's on Cornhill, which has some cashpoints inside a room and I've never really understood it - would there be a reason for them having this small room with some cashpoints in around the corner from the actual bank? It means there are three Lloyd's TSBs within 50m of each other at the moment, with two literally opposite each other and then the weird little thing around the corner.madmusician wrote:Yep - got a snazzy booklet through the post at the start of this week. Lots of information of the bank's ethos.Pete wrote:
I got my Welcome to TSB letter the other day. Have Lloyds ones gone out too?
Snatches of the new font around the (newly refitted) Ipswich branch already, ahead of Monday's big reveal when the temporary signage will come down. And the change back to the Lloyds Bank name means that the old sign emblazoned into the glass above the door can be visible again. Lovely!
Also, RE that branch opposite the main branch mentioned earlier yet barely used, it seems it was a Post Office back in the day, and indeed became a TSB at some point and then a Lloyds TSB post-merger.
I also had an additional front page to my latest statement telling me about the merger, oddly stating that I 'often use a branch that will become a TSB'. I really don't think I do (!!) - as the two or three branches that I spread my usage between will all stay as Lloyds - I checked! So I wonder if that was a generic statement put to everyone?
I wonder how they decided which branches were to be kept as Lloyds and which were to become TSB? It's not simply decided by what they were before the merger, as the branch in George Street, Hull was originally a TSB (it's still possible to tell where the sign was), but will now be a Lloyds.
Well most TSBs would have been closed anyway in most towns, where there was already a Lloyds I'd imagine. It would have just been a small cross section of the less valuable buildings in areas they didn't already have a C&G. There really wont be that many TSBs compared to Lloyds.JAS84 wrote:I wonder how they decided which branches were to be kept as Lloyds and which were to become TSB? It's not simply decided by what they were before the merger, as the branch in George Street, Hull was originally a TSB (it's still possible to tell where the sign was), but will now be a Lloyds.
This branch pictured on the Lloyds TSB Wikipedia page in Teddington will suddenly look pretty close to how it should in terms of branding.
One thing I like about Germany and Italy is that they have their cashpoints indoors in a foyer of the bank which requires a swipe of a debit card to enter. Therefore you're not out in the cold and its a bit more secure. The branch itself has a second set of doors that can be locked at closing time (which appears to be 23.5hrs of the day).Critique wrote: Also, there's a really weird little Lloyd's TSB around the corner from the main Lloyd's on Cornhill, which has some cashpoints inside a room and I've never really understood it - would there be a reason for them having this small room with some cashpoints in around the corner from the actual bank? It means there are three Lloyd's TSBs within 50m of each other at the moment, with two literally opposite each other and then the weird little thing around the corner?
Also Italy's mafia protection capsule entrance systems are always very small. Not sure if they'd work over here with some of the fatties.
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