MAJOR MILESTONE FOR BANKING CELEBRATED IN BRIGG

The Lloyds Bank branch in Wrawby Street, Brigg, is joining the company celebrations this week.
It's 250 years tomorrow (June 3) since Lloyds was founded, and the Brigg branch is offering customers who call in free chocolates and balloons (presumably while stocks last).
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Lloyds Bank was originally in Bigby Street, but after a merger a few years ago they closed the premises and everything was centralised in the former TSB building on Wrawby Street, under the name of Lloyds TSB.
A further change at national level saw the Brigg branch become a Lloyds outlet. Some sort of recent government sell-off means the taxpayer now has less cash invested in the bank. But it does mean if you are a bank shareholder, like yours truly, a dividend cheque has just come your way.
We went in yesterday to bank ours - for just over 3 quid. Just as well we didn't make a special trip to the town centre or the petrol money would have really eaten into our windfall.
We scanned the cheque prior to cashing it - so we remember to include it in next April's tax return. Such efficiency!
Older Brigg Blog followers may remember taking sixpence or a shilling to Glebe Road school on a Monday morning and having the amount entered into a green Trustee Savings Bank book. Presumably the idea was to introduce us to banking at an early age. The fact that a few of us still bank with the Trustee's 21st century successor shows the wisdom of the banking bosses managing things in the 1960s. Was there, we wonder, some sort of donation made to the school, or the local education authority, for hosting this well-meaning service? We shall probably never know!