Metro Bank opens its first branch in London

A performer outside the first branch of Metro Bank Photograph: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images

Workers attach a door handle to a branch of Metro Bank beofre it opens Photograph: Toby Melville/Reuters

Customers queue at the first branch of Metro Bank in Holborn Photograph: Toby Melville/Reuters

Lollipops Photograph: Graeme Robertson/Guardian

US billionaire and co-founder of Metro Bank, Vernon Hill Photograph: Facundo Arrizabalaga/EPA

Metro Bank, which claims to be the first new bank to open for 100 years, the first (and only) branch in Holborn, London Photograph: Graeme Robertson/Guardian

Safety deposit boxes Photograph: Graeme Robertson/Guardian

Hugo, a bearded Collie, in the newly opened Metro Bank branch in Holborn, central London Photograph: John Stillwell/PA

The chairman of Metro Bank, Anthony Thomson Photograph: Adrian Dennis/AFP/Getty Images

An employee looks on as the first branch of Metro Bank opens to the public Photograph: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images