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Here's a thing. When you put a debit card in a Co-op branded card reader (the things Barclays call 'PINsentry's) it tells you the bank it's associated with (or, in lieu of that, either "Visa Auth" or "Securecode"). My new Halifax debit card comes up as 'Lloyds TSB'.

Probably only until midnight tonight when they change all the computer systems over.

"Internet Banking will be unavailable from 11pm on September 7th while we fuck about changing all the bank names and move your C&G account over to a different system so you have to log in twice in order to carry out the simplest transaction" or something like that, can't remember exactly, only read the first few words.

The new TSB website looks like something out of 2003, not 2013. I had my hopes up after seeing the very nice https://www.introducinglloydsbank.com/ too. Hopefully it's just temporary during the switch.

Edit: After seeing this page, I'm inclined to say it probably is temporary.

Truro's ex C&G's cloaking was removed yesterday, all ready to go as a TSB from the morning, The Lloyds has closed for a refurb until the middle of the month.

Philip wrote:The new TSB website looks like something out of 2003, not 2013. I had my hopes up after seeing the very nice https://www.introducinglloydsbank.com/ too. Hopefully it's just temporary during the switch.

Ooh, aliased logo and designed for 800x600 unless I'm very much mistaken.

Time for one last gratuitous 'temporary signage' photo before the big unveiling tomorrow...here is Exeter city centre LTSB yesterday morning, where the delightful 'cardboard boxes with plastic strapping' effort it's been wearing for the past month or so looking about ready to fall off.

It also seems you can't visit the website by putting in tsb.co.uk, it has to be www.tsb.co.uk.

Meanwhile, TSB has uploaded a video to it's YouTube channel, 'TSB: The story:'

I've just remembered a high street rebrand that seemed to pass everybody by- and that was the 2008 rebranding of Woolworths! Towards the back end of 2008, they introduced a new logo, which was lower case, I remember it being used on both print & TV ads and on the website, but I'm not sure whether it actually got as far as appearing on any actual stores, products or carrier bags. Of course, only a few weeks after it was introduced, they went into administration, and the administrators went back to using the old logo, and it seems hardly anybody noticed the logo changed in the first place!

However, digging on archive.org, I managed to find a cache of the website from the very brief period that logo was in use: http://web.archive.org/web/200810062118 ... /index.jsp



Looking at the cached versions of the website, the logo was introduced in early September, so it only had about 2 months of use before the administrators were called in and it was scrapped.

james2001 wrote: However, digging on archive.org, I managed to find a cache of the website from the very brief period that logo was in use: http://web.archive.org/web/200810062118 ... /index.jsp

Wasn't it first used on a music download service?

james2001 wrote:I've just remembered a high street rebrand that seemed to pass everybody by- and that was the 2008 rebranding of Woolworths! Towards the back end of 2008, they introduced a new logo, which was lower case, I remember it being used on both print & TV ads and on the website, but I'm not sure whether it actually got as far as appearing on any actual stores, products or carrier bags. Of course, only a few weeks after it was introduced, they went into administration, and the administrators went back to using the old logo, and it seems hardly anybody noticed the logo changed in the first place!

However, digging on archive.org, I managed to find a cache of the website from the very brief period that logo was in use: http://web.archive.org/web/200810062118 ... /index.jsp



Looking at the cached versions of the website, the logo was introduced in early September, so it only had about 2 months of use before the administrators were called in and it was scrapped.

I think all promotional material (printed at least) maintained the old one at that point, as evidenced by the Christmas catalogue with the older logo on that screengrab. Perhaps they were going for a different logo for the website?

In any case, it's nicer than the horrid thing the current online operation uses, but I'd say not as good as the longstanding logo it replaced.

That's because the Christmas catalogue probably launched in August, which is prior to that logo's introduction. Had they not gone into administration, the new logo probably would've been on the next one.

nodnirG kraM wrote:Is that management buy out Wellworths place still in business?

No, it folded last August, having had to change its name to Wellchester after Shop Direct protested.

Not before I popped in to get my commemorative mug, mind you.