Amazing the way some ads linger in the mind. Wonder how many also remember which bank was advertising?
Handyman 0 - Angle Grinder 1.
Jan 08, 2007
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National Westminster?
Could this be considered inside trading?
The collective noun for a group of bankers is "a wunch".
yes, yes, and why did the Irish used to call their currency the Punt?
Only word in the language that rhymes with bank manager.
I've never forgiven that big, nasty Westminster Bank for swallowing up my nice National Provincial.
National *and* Provincial, Shirley??
Certainly not.
From "The History of Banking" :
"By the early 1920s public alarm at the pace of the merger movement had prompted the government to put into place a number of constraints on takeovers by the so-called 'Big Five' - Westminster, National Provincial, Barclays, Lloyds and Midland."
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