Have a look in your wallet

nurseawful



Joined: 06/02/2009
Posts: 5934

Message Posted:
08/03/2010 22:48

£20 notes with a picture of Edgar Elgar will no longer be legal tender after 30th June this year. Only notes with Adam Smith the Scottish economist will be accepted after this date.



Chris

Brinsley


Joined: 04/04/2009
Posts: 6858

Message Posted:
08/03/2010 22:58

Must have been decades ago since I held such a large sum in my wallet!



Richard

Lilli



Joined: 21/07/2008
Posts: 13081

Message Posted:
08/03/2010 23:09

to have a fiver in my wallet i would consider myself rich, thanks for the tip if i get any 20 pound notes i will check them now xxxx

spider


Joined: 03/01/2009
Posts: 5527

Message Posted:
08/03/2010 23:16

well safe here,dont handle the stuff leave all that to Mr Spider,saves me shopping....little ol me dont need much either but when i do i just hold me hand out,and get what i want..nice init. ))





Spider,x

greenman


Joined: 16/02/2008
Posts: 526

Message Posted:
08/03/2010 23:56

Ironic when you think about it - Scottish economist on our £20 notes. Now which banks failed in the UK?

Clue - they all had the word Scotland in them.

wanderer


Joined: 05/02/2009
Posts: 1653

Message Posted:
09/03/2010 02:03

I think it is terrible that the composer Sir Edward William Elgar, 1st Baronet that has given us so many fantastic pieces of music has been demoted from the £20 note for a boring economist who's region has given us our worst national debt ever

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Elgar

He was also a fervent Wolverhampton Wanderers supporter and regularly cycled to matches from his home in Worcester

compare this with Smith

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Smith

Boring

I would rather have an evening with pomp and circumstance than the wealth of nations

Sorry nurse only kidding its useful information for those with money under the mattress

nurseawful



Joined: 06/02/2009
Posts: 5934

Message Posted:
09/03/2010 06:51

Wanderer,



It could be worse they could have Gordon Browns face on the back!!!



Chris

Groucho



Joined: 26/04/2008
Posts: 7993

Message Posted:
09/03/2010 07:02

'Northern Rock' doesn't have Scotland in it!



More importantly fake 100 TL notes are in circulation... they are such good fakes they even fool some bank staff.



They have all the watermarks and metal strip etc. but the paper is slightly too furry and not quite as shiny as it should be, other than that they are indistinguishable from the real thing.



If you get stuck with one you are stuck with it... as it's illegal to pass it on as it is in all countries.

Groucho



Joined: 26/04/2008
Posts: 7993

Message Posted:
09/03/2010 07:19

Greenman,



Are you sure it wasn't English spivs running the Scottish banks?

Chegwin


Joined: 24/03/2009
Posts: 775

Message Posted:
09/03/2010 07:28

I know a few folk who had a peek and found white fivers!!

Chegwin

Groucho



Joined: 26/04/2008
Posts: 7993

Message Posted:
09/03/2010 07:48

Hand written?

wanderer


Joined: 05/02/2009
Posts: 1653

Message Posted:
09/03/2010 08:32

Nurse

god help us if its Oik in charge of the treasury aka George Osbourne the city is petrified of him he has as much of a clue as:-

Flecher Dervisher from the New Statesman programme Sir Alan 'Bstards (Rick Mayall)hapless associate

I'm off for the plane now can the last one out turn off the lights to reduce global warming

Groucho



Joined: 26/04/2008
Posts: 7993

Message Posted:
09/03/2010 08:44

Do you mean George Osborne MP?



George Osborne is the eldest son and heir of Sir Peter Osborne, 17th Baronet... a toff then! Originally named Gideon, he changed his name to George when he was 13.



Why would he be called 'oik'

scoobydoo


Joined: 10/11/2008
Posts: 2434

Message Posted:
09/03/2010 15:14

i just had a vision of someone sat in jail doing time for a robbery and rubbing their dirty little hands, thinking that they would be okay when they got out in a few years time only to find that their booty was out of date!

nurseawful



Joined: 06/02/2009
Posts: 5934

Message Posted:
10/03/2010 08:35

Okay if you don't want a 'Scot' on the back of the £20 note. Who would you like to see on it?



I think maybe a better choice of Scot like Alexander Graham Bell or John Logie Baird.



Chris