In message , Robin May
writes

My girlfriend's cousin visited from America last year and I was pretty
surprised to find on the day he arrived and I tried to use his money to
buy a tube ticket for him that he'd been issued an old style £20 note.
Are banks and bureau de changes allowed to do this? And do they do it
in the UK as well as in America?

A UK-based bank or BdeC shouldn't issue outdated notes, but clearly
there are those overseas which don't seem to either know or care.
--
Roland Perry

In message , Robin May
writes
My girlfriend's cousin visited from America last year and I was pretty
surprised to find on the day he arrived and I tried to use his money to
buy a tube ticket for him that he'd been issued an old style £20 note.
Are banks and bureau de changes allowed to do this? And do they do it
in the UK as well as in America?

I deal with a *lot* of overseas visitors to the UK and look after
(rather fewer) UK visitors to foreign parts.

The issuing of out of date notes by UK banks to people going overseas is
very rare (but has happened). The issuing of out of date UK notes by
US banks to Americans visit the UK is *very* common indeed.
--
Ian Jelf, MITG, Birmingham, UK
Registered "Blue Badge" Tourist Guide for
London & the Heart of England
http://www.bluebadge.demon.co.uk

In message , Paul Terry
writes
If you mean the notes with the picture of Michael Faraday (rather than
Elgar) they ceased to be legal tender on 28 Feb 2001 and so certainly
should not have been issued to anyone in 2003.

Never mind the Faraday ones.......

Further to my other post in this thread, it's not many months ago since
I had a US client here who'd just been given a *wad* of FLORENCE
NIGHTINGALE £20 notes by her bank at home!
--
Ian Jelf, MITG, Birmingham, UK
Registered "Blue Badge" Tourist Guide for
London & the Heart of England
http://www.bluebadge.demon.co.uk

Ian Jelf writes:
In message , Paul Terry
writes
If you mean the notes with the picture of Michael Faraday (rather than
Elgar) they ceased to be legal tender on 28 Feb 2001 and so certainly
should not have been issued to anyone in 2003.

Never mind the Faraday ones.......

Further to my other post in this thread, it's not many months ago since
I had a US client here who'd just been given a *wad* of FLORENCE
NIGHTINGALE £20 notes by her bank at home!

Shurely Bill Shakespeare? Florence was on the tenner.

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: I must resort to wackiness." :
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In message , Dylan O'Donnell
writes
Ian Jelf writes:
In message , Paul Terry
writes
If you mean the notes with the picture of Michael Faraday (rather than
Elgar) they ceased to be legal tender on 28 Feb 2001 and so certainly
should not have been issued to anyone in 2003.

Never mind the Faraday ones.......

Further to my other post in this thread, it's not many months ago since
I had a US client here who'd just been given a *wad* of FLORENCE
NIGHTINGALE £20 notes by her bank at home!

Shurely Bill Shakespeare? Florence was on the tenner.

D'oh! My error. But they were Florence Nightingale ones, ie £10s.
I found it incredible (and the client was not a little displeased).
--
Ian Jelf, MITG, Birmingham, UK
Registered "Blue Badge" Tourist Guide for
London & the Heart of England
http://www.bluebadge.demon.co.uk

Roland Perry wrote:

(Latest problems: a lack of lifts at either Ealing Broadway or Acton
Town - getting to Heathrow by tube with heavy bags is a real hassle).

Acton Town should get one as part of the present works.

Ealing Broadway is known to need rebuilding. It might happen as part
of Crossrail.

Colin McKenzie
--
The great advantage of not trusting statistics is that
it leaves you free to believe the damned lies instead!