“My sister-in-law used to work at the main office as a mortgage broker – so that’s how we got our mortgage,” said Robinson.<\/p>\n
“You get to know all the girls by their first name and now we’re going to lose that.”<\/p>\n
About 3,000 people work at the bank’s HQ on Trinity Road and residents remember a time when “everybody knew somebody who worked there”.<\/p>\n
As a child growing up in Halifax, you were expected to open your first bank account with the bank of the same name.<\/p>\n
But now, even though customers’ sort codes and accounts numbers will remain the same, the comforting logo, synonymous with the company’s late-90s peak, will be no more.<\/p>\n
Lloyds Banking Group’s chief executive of consumer relationships Jas Singh said: “As Halifax changes to Lloyds, our Halifax customers will keep everything they know and love today – the same fantastic app design, the same friendly faces in our branches.” <\/p>\n
It is expected the changes will come into place in early 2027 across the organisation’s 190 Halifax-branded sites. <\/p>\n
Tony Callahan, from nearby Huddersfield, told the BBC that losing the sign and name would mean a “general loss of identity for Halifax”. <\/p>\n
“It’s a great place… it’s a typical old mill town and it’s just losing its character with this news,” said the 72-year-old.<\/p>\n
“It’s going under a big corporate identity and losing its history and I think it’s sad.”<\/p>\n
He added: “Somebody needs to stand up and say, ‘look, this is part of us, leave it alone, thank you’.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“My sister-in-law used to work at the main office as a mortgage broker – so that’s how we…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":674565,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-674564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=674564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674564\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/674565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=674564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=674564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=674564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}