London Banter - View Single Post - How much was a ticket for the underground in the 60s?

Tom Anderson

On Wed, 18 Jun 2008, Tim Roll-Pickering wrote:

wrote:

Is it not possible to take the money to bank, particularly where one
might have an account, rather than to go through one of those counting
machines?

Banks vary quite a bit on this. When I first got a current account in
1992 one of the considerations was the ability to pay in loose coins.
Even then some banks wouldn't take them out of hours. Now even my bank
is switching its payin machines from "deposit an envelope" to "feed in
the notes and cheques" with no cash option.

What the heck are people meant to do with their loose change?

Buy sweets.

I used to accumulate coppers, and then have to deal with paying them in.
Then i realised i could just accumulate them in my pocket up to the sum of
10p, then use them to replace a 10p coin in my next transaction. These
days, i rarely own more than a few coppers.

tom

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