1964 I opened a current account at my local RBS. No forms to fill in, just a letter from my parents. I had been with the same branch for almost 59 years - the physical branch closed a few years back but my sort code/bank acct number remains the same.
Same sort codes/account numbers to avoid wholesale new account numbers. My "new nearest Branch" has 5/6 sort codes - at least one of the other sort codes has the same bank account number which caused confusion last August when I went to the branch with a query.
A couple of years ago I had to phone them re a transaction and for security they said I would need to answer an odd question or two. He got as far as the question/answer page to find nothing.
On-line "How did you open an account without filling in these forms"
My reply was "55+ years ago things were different"
No questions asked and query solved.
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