Bank practices or branch practices that have ceased....

COIAHLGW

Paying in cash/cheques for anybody with a paying in slip, and it did not have to be personalized or need ID

Having 3 separate reciprocal cash machine networks
Midland/Natwest/Ulster/TSB
Lloyds, Barclays, RBS, BOS (?)
Link network initially for building societies only
Now they are all linked together 

gsmh

COIAHLGW said:

Paying in cash/cheques for anybody with a paying in slip, and it did not have to be personalized or need ID

Indeed. I actually remember the sort code and account number of the TSB account I had nearly 40 years ago because of how often I had to fill in one of those un-personalised paying-in slips.

eskbanker

ChirpyChicken said:

Bank practices or branch practices that have ceased....

Not a branch one but at a bank level, there's no longer an ability to plunge the country into financial crisis, now that there's tighter regulatory control again....

ChirpyChicken

The 3.30pm cut off was annoying 

7sefton

ChirpyChicken said:

I always seem to think of Yorkshire Bank/ Clydsdale Bank as being one of the more old fashioned banks before all the changes, their branches always seemed really dated

Really interesting… in what ways were they dated? There wasn’t a YB/CB near me so I’ve never seen inside one. 

hoc

Staff taking pride in how they looked and looking good in uniform.

It's sad that most of the time staff have a sloppy look and would rather focus on their phone to avoid eye contact hoping the customer uses the machines.

In addition to many changes with the times the general deterioration of service quality in the UK can not be overlooked.

Largs

They gave their cash machines a name.  I can only remember some...

RBS = Cashline
TSB = Speedbank
Natwest = Service Till
Lloyds = Cashpoint
Clydesdale =Autobank
Bank of Scotland = Autoteller

ChirpyChicken

7sefton said:

ChirpyChicken said:

I always seem to think of Yorkshire Bank/ Clydsdale Bank as being one of the more old fashioned banks before all the changes, their branches always seemed really dated

Really interesting… in what ways were they dated? There wasn’t a YB/CB near me so I’ve never seen inside one. 

Hard to explain they just seemed really outdated. Unmodernised

EarthBoy

Largs said:

Having all your cashed cheques returned to you.  (Bank of Scotland) - (still unsure why they did this).

I think all the banks probably did that if you go back far enough.  Williams & Glyn's were still doing it in the early 80s. 
I presume it was in case customers wanted proof that their cheques had been paid.   

EarthBoy

Largs said:

They gave their cash machines a name.  I can only remember some...

RBS = Cashline
TSB = Speedbank
Natwest = Service Till
Lloyds = Cashpoint
Clydesdale =Autobank
Bank of Scotland = Autoteller

Yorkshire Bank = Minibank.