Barclays unveils revamped flagship branch
Barclays opened its new look flagship branch in Canary Wharf today with a host of special events and celebrity appearances.
Former England footballer Teddy Sheringham and ex-Wimbledon champion Pat Cash were both on hand to meet the public, while Britain's Got Talent winners Diversity put on a show.
Sheringham posed for pictures with fans and the Barclays Premier League trophy while Cash took on all-comers at Wii tennis.
A platoon of "Barclayguards" were on patrol, dressed as Grenadier Guards, wearing uniforms of Barclays blue rather than traditional red.
The opening ceremony was carried out by Fritz Seegers, chief executive of Barclay's retail and commercial division, and Deanna Oppenheimer, chief executive of UK retail banking.
The branch, adjacent to the bank's headquarters in Churchill Place, boasts a number of features, including a cash counter without a protective screen between cashiers and customers.
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Good to know those ‘Shekel Shovellers’’ at Barclays, Canary Wharf, have got their priorities right. Apparently, after spending hundreds of thousands of pounds of their client’s dosh on a poncey branch-makeover that resembles a futuristic television studio, they forgot to install a cash counter!
This means you can’t deposit the odd few pounds in coppers, collected over the year, without a telephone interrogation, and a request to ‘ come down and bag them up’, because it would take a member of staff too long to count it all! There was me thinking that that was what banks were supposed to do!
Ah well, charity is an alternative, I‘m told--no doubt heading for the ‘Home for Wayward Bonus-Baggers’!
What a load of Bankers!