I had an account at Yorkshire Bank, Bradford Road from 1962 and had it for almost 50 years. Then the owners the National Bank of Australia sold it to the Virgin Banking Group who then promptly closed the Brighouse branch. You can always go to the Cleckheaton branch, no thank you, so after almost 50 years I closed all my accounts I had with them and re-opened them in the Halifax Bank on Bethel Street. 

Have you still got your blotter? Interestingly the headteacher was Mr Jones, if you did not have a blotter you will almost certainly remember Mr Jones who lived at the top of High Street, just across the road from the school.