I have an old Nationwide account with £86.42 in it AMA.

[FreshwaterBay]

It was opened when I was eight.

Do you know how much interest has accrued?

Are your parents still alive? Because it was nationwide who would not let me take the money from a childhood account without my dad’s signature, “but he’s dead”, I protested. “We still need his signature” said the teller. I shit you not.

Do you still have the /a bank book that the cashier would fill in every time you deposited / withdrew money .

What are you going to do with the money ? leave it there , spend it on something sensible or blow it on something fun / extravagant

How old are you now?
When was there last money put into/taken out of it?

"but he’s dead”, I protested. “We still need his signature” said the teller. I shit you not

WTAF

Will you give me £17.65? I deserve it

I have an account that I have not accessed for over 20 years, my account book says it had £10.32 in it. I keep meaning to go in and see if they still have it open and how much interest it has accrued.

Did you inherit, marry into it or earn it yourself?

I have one too. Has about the same amount in it - a few bits of birthday money, then forgotten/ignored.

Shall we combine resources and go out for a slap up meal?

@stathletsflats I had that! Even when I took the deceased parents's death certificate the Abbey held my £13.84 to ransom as I wasn't an executor

I've got £2.24 in an old nationwide account, probably worth a fiver in interest. My dad is the signatory but he died 20 years ago. They must be sitting on a fortune.

Ooh I've just remembered I have a Woolwich account!

Traditionally, the OP answers the questions in AMAs 😄...

Yes, apologies I was up late all night counting it. I will do my best to answer these today.

@WannabeGlamper I refer you to my answer to the question put by @Cocolapew

@StathLetsFlats

Sadly not they died about ten years ago, however they did leave two small ISA accounts which are frozen. Each has about £200 in so never worth bothering with. They should rename them ICE-A accounts, because they are frozen. Geddit!! ??

Freetony
I have a Midlands (now HSBC) account from when I was on a YTS, and had my wages paid in there (£30 a week!,)
it's 36 years old, i would really like to know if it has accrued any interest , pretty sure they don't even have a record of it now tho.

@SamBeckett No I do not have the original book. I lost it when travelling across the Sahara. This may sound strange but when I was 20 I went travelling a lot in hot places like the Sahara, Chilean salt flats and Margate. Having been robbed by Bedouin and Somalian pirates before, I used to take the Nationwide book and use it as a dummy passport. It worked very well. A large first class stamp on the front with the Queen's head gave it some authority. It got taken from me at the border between Chad and Libya, never returned.

@Cocolapew

There was only ever one deposit. If I tell you how much that was a quick 20 minutes on an excel spreadsheet working the interest rates back in arrears will tell you how old I am. I don't want to do that.

@KickBishopBrennanUpTheArse

OK, but no.

@Walnutwhipster None of those. I won it in a conker dual.

@freetony

Woolwich disappeard in 1997. Pfft......

Barclays have it. Good luck.

To all who asked. I am going to wait until the interest takes it to £100. Then I am going to spend it all on mint imperials. I worked out this will be in 2064.

@RedElephants I worked for Midland/HSBC bank in the 80s. They used to make several attempts to contact the account holder at the last known address if they had no success after about a year then they would move the money to a holding account for dormant accounts.

I also have a Woolwich account and a Cheltenham and Gloucester account. I think I have a Post Office account somewhere.