I have been out this morning and done some shopping. I am able to do this on a bank holiday! On my journey though I saw one person knocking on a closed building society door and another cursing out loud because the local post office is closed. It is a bank holiday and although shops can take money they are unable to bank it. Thus, outlets that handle only money are closed as we are all aware banks are.

Yes, funny it may seem but some people just don't seem to get that the name Bank holiday , actually means the Banks are on Holiday!!!

Originally posted by BoppinBruce
I have been out this morning and done some shopping. I am able to do this on a bank holiday! On my journey though I saw one person knocking on a closed building society door and another cursing out loud because the local post office is closed. It is a bank holiday and although shops can take money they are unable to bank it. Thus, outlets that handle only money are closed as we are all aware banks are.

Sorry, not sure I've understood the point you're making.

Are you saying it's unfair that outlets that can only take cash can't open on a Bank Hol because they can't bank their takings?

Like on every Sunday?

And what about those outlets that do open on a Bank Hol, but still take cash, and also can't bank it? - ie every outlet that does open on a Bank Hol (cos I don't know of one that doesn't take cash).

Originally posted by Ginner
Sorry, not sure I've understood the point you're making.

Are you saying it's unfair that outlets that can only take cash can't open on a Bank Hol because they can't bank their takings?

Like on every Sunday?

And what about those outlets that do open on a Bank Hol, but still take cash, and also can't bank it? - ie every outlet that does open on a Bank Hol (cos I don't know of one that doesn't take cash).

Ginner I think the point Bruce is making is that it is very pointless to be knocking on a Building Society's or post office door on a bank holiday because they are not likely to be open so why waste your time or get stressed out by it! I think he was just reminding people that's all.

Presume the pubs will be Sunday hours too!

Many people have to work Bank Holidays and Weekends, so why shouldn't all public services and shops be open?

Ok I know I'm going to get shop workers and the like shouting at me but if you have bank holidays as 'floating' leave you can take the days when ever is best for you and even group them to make a full weeks holiday.

Before you say "why should I be forced to work Bank Holidays" why should the nurses, the doctors, the police, the bus drivers and all those people in the entertainment industry like Bar and cinema staff?

Its not just Bank Holidays that get on my nerves, i would like sheffield to genuinely be the 24 hour city that it claims to be.

The big sign outside Asda says 'Open 24 Hours' and underneath it says 'closed between....'

AAAAArrrgh, ok rant over, I'm done now, come slaughter me.

Originally posted by ole1
Its not just Bank Holidays that get on my nerves, i would like sheffield to genuinely be the 24 hour city that it claims to be.
Shops and services can open and close when they feel like it.

Where does Sheffield claim to be a 24 hour city?

Originally posted by BoppinBruce
On my journey though I saw one person knocking on a closed building society door

Why do people do that? I work in a bank and people often bang on the door in an evening after we're closed and most of the lights are turned off. Why? What do they think will happen? Doesn't the fact that the door is locked, and the lights are turned off, and there's nobody inside give them a clue that we may be closed? :confused: :rant: :help:

If we are being picky, I think Good Friday is defined as a public holiday (like Christmas Day and New Year's Day), which is different from a Bank Holiday. The fact that the banks are closed is purely a coincidence.

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I am confused, I told my daughter this morning that it was Bank Holiday and the shops would be closed (cept of course traditional DIY establishments, lol). However, the shops were all open in town (not Sheffield sorry guys!!), what makes me laugh is that shopping Thursday in town supermarkets were jam packed with people still buying as though the shops were closed for a month!!! Still thinking about Christmas this is kinda shopping madness is traditional too!!

hehe,i am in china ,our bank run on weekends and all public services are opening

Clever clogs. so the communists let you get away with a little.

The point I am making is that banks, post offices, building societies etc. are closed because it is a bank noliday. So now, what is the difference between a bank holiday and a public holiday. I assumed the latter was say, for Queen's jubilee and the like, a one off occasion.

I looked up the answer to this dilema in the Big Book of All Knowledge at work today. I've only quoted information about England - not Scotland, Wales or Northen Ireland. It's very boring but here goes:


Bank holidays were first introduced by the Bank Holidays Act of 1871, which designated four holidays in England. These were Easter Monday, the first Monday in August, the 26th December, and Whit Monday. Both Christmas Day and Good Friday were traditional days of rest and Christian worship (as were Sundays) and did not need to be included in the Act.

The 1871 Act was repealed 100 years later and its provisions incorporated into the Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971, which remains the statutory basis for bank holidays. The following changes were introduced both then and subsequently:

1971 - Whit Monday (which could fall anywhere between 11 May and 14 June) was formally replaced by a fixed spring holiday on the last Monday in May. The last Monday in August was formally made a bank holiday in place of the first Monday in August. In both cases, this followed a trial period of the new arrangements between 1965 and 1970.

1974 - New Year's Day became an additional bank holiday.

1978 - the first Monday in May became an additional bank holiday.

Bank holidays designated since the 1971 Act are appointed each year by Royal Proclamation.


And further down the page...


...Christmas Day and Good Friday which, in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, are common law holidays - they are not specified by law as bank holidays but have become customary holidays because of common observance.


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Thank you to all for information