[HPFGU-OTChatter] Bank Holiday

[Kathryn]

A Bank Holiday is simply the British term for a public holiday of some kind
Such as New Years Day, May Day, Christmas, this one which is the August Bank
Holiday, etc. they're so called (I believe) because the banks (and all
council and goverment offices) shut.

K

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From: HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com
Date: 31 August 2002 15:51:53
To: HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com
Subject: [HPFGU-OTChatter] Bank Holiday

Ah! Good! At last, the opportunity to ask one of those plaguing questions
you never remember at the right time... what on earth is the UK "Bank
Holiday" in aid of? Something to do with banks as in money? I read about the
Bank Holiday endlessly as a child in my Pony Club books (any fellow readers
thereof prepared to come out of the closet?), but I never knew what it was
*for*.

Tabouli.


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