Lloyds Bowmaker mortgages ltd

opinions4u

Lloyds Bowmaker was a subsidiary of the old Lloyds Bank.

When Lloyds merged with TSB, Lloyds Bowmaker was merged with TSB subsidiary UDT (United Dominion Trust).

So you need to keep working on LloydsTSB.

Here's some links that help support my statements:

http://www.am-online.com/news/story/Finance-insightLloyds-keeps-two-brands-and-seeks-25m-savings/501

http://www.debretts.com/people/biographies/browse/l/814/Andrew+Henry.aspx

http://uk.linkedin.com/in/markstraiton

http://www.fsa.gov.uk/Pages/Library/Communication/PR/1999/065.shtml

JackRS

Thanks, I'd seen some of that in my research, I spoke with someone at head office UDT who advised me to speak to their mortgage group who couldn't/wouldn't help, I'm just not speaking the right people at LTSB, yet....

JackRS

I’m still no further on with this.

I’ve been back to Friend Provident who admitted if I did nothing they would send the cheque to a company that no longer exists (dissolved in 2002) so the cheque would not be cashed and the money would still be in FP’s account?

FP contacted company house as I had and got similar addresses that I tried previously, when I spoke to Lloyds TSB they advised to write to their customer service team. Which I did, proper hard copy letter in an envelope and stamp! They have responded to the letter with a phone call to tell me after some research they can only find same information as I had already identified. Lloyds Bowmaker was merged with Lloyds subsidiary UDT (United Dominion Trust) which was dissolved. They couldn’t help anymore and suggested I tried wikipedia?

I don’t imagine I’m the only one with this type of problem is there another way to get endowment policy unlinked to a no longer operating mortgage company? FP said they need a letter from whoever took over from Bowmaker but at the moment that can’t be established?

CloudCuckooLand

Have you tried writing to the address you originally had?

Some organisations maintain forwarding of mail from obsolete addresses, so it will get redirected to where it needs to go, for years...

JackRS

CloudCuckooLand wrote: »

Have you tried writing to the address you originally had?

Some organisations maintain forwarding of mail from obsolete addresses, so it will get redirected to where it needs to go, for years...

Sadly yes, some months back, to the address that FP had listed in Reading and to others. Some have been returned 'not known at this address' others no response. Thanks for the idea.

I wondered if the solicitor who oversaw the house move for when we transferred the mortgage away from Lloyds Bowmaker (1996), should have done something to ensure they no longer had as link to the policies? Anyway probably not worth trying that route...

I think the next step is to go back to FP again and ask if there's some other way?

opinions4u

Write to 25 Gresham Street, London, EC2V 7HN UNITED KINGDOM as a complaint.

Tell them they have 8 weeks to resolve it or you'll got to the FOS.

In the meantime, contact the FOS anyway and ask for advice.

JackRS

opinions4u wrote: »

Write to 25 Gresham Street, London, EC2V 7HN UNITED KINGDOM as a complaint.

Tell them they have 8 weeks to resolve it or you'll got to the FOS.

In the meantime, contact the FOS anyway and ask for advice.

Thanks, I have written to 25 Gresham but had no reply, so then chased by phone but just got transferred to Lloyds TSB etc. However I haven't tried FOS, so will try again and in parallel write FOS as you suggested.