{"id":5049,"date":"2011-09-09T17:41:24","date_gmt":"2011-09-09T16:41:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/?p=5049"},"modified":"2011-09-09T17:46:28","modified_gmt":"2011-09-09T16:46:28","slug":"premier-league-trophy-comes-to-brixton-as-barclays-bank-relaunches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/premier-league-trophy-comes-to-brixton-as-barclays-bank-relaunches\/","title":{"rendered":"Premier League trophy comes to Brixton as Barclays Bank relaunches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/barclays-bank-brixton-reopens-04.jpg\" alt=\"Premier League trophy comes to Brixton with Barclays Bank relaunch\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Queuing up in the Brixton branch of Barclays Bank usually made for a particularly grim\u00a0experience\u00a0&#8211; \u00a0although nowhere near as bad as the dreaded Ferndale Road Post Office &#8211; but after a recent\u00a0refurbishment, a &#8216;new look&#8217; branch was celebrated today.<\/p>\n<p>Accompanying the relaunch was the presence of the Barclays Premier League Trophy, with the branch on the corner of Coldharbour Lane and Brixton Road being\u00a0decorated\u00a0with a load of balloons. It&#8217;s party time! In a bank! Yeah!<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/barclays-bank-brixton-reopens-01.jpg\" alt=\"Premier League trophy comes to Brixton with Barclays Bank relaunch\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There two daft blokes\u00a0bizarrely\u00a0dressed as Barclays-branded soldiers stood outside the bank, with the trophy being housed in a tent nearby, flanked by serious-looking\u00a0security\u00a0guards.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/barclays-bank-brixton-reopens-02.jpg\" alt=\"Premier League trophy comes to Brixton with Barclays Bank relaunch\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you queued up you could get your photo taken with the cup, which <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sponsorship.barclays.co.uk\/football\/trophy-tour.html\" target=\"_blank\">often goes on tour<\/a> around Britain.<\/p>\n<p>There were quite a few takers.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/barclays-bank-brixton-reopens-03.jpg\" alt=\"Premier League trophy comes to Brixton with Barclays Bank relaunch\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/barclays-bank-brixton-reopens-05.jpg\" alt=\"Premier League trophy comes to Brixton with Barclays Bank relaunch\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Queuing up in the Brixton branch of Barclays Bank usually made for a particularly grim\u00a0experience\u00a0&#8211; \u00a0although nowhere near as bad as the dreaded Ferndale Road Post Office &#8211; but after &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7205,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,7,17,193],"tags":[1191],"class_list":["post-5049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-brixton","category-football","category-photos","category-places","tag-brixton"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/barclays-bank-brixton-reopens-04.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQI7P-1jr","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5049"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5055,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5049\/revisions\/5055"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}