Hi Jean, This what Wikipedia has to say (a bit abbreviated). It looks as if your only hope is to get Aussie Dollars back for your pennies! There was one in Hebden Bridge too, which I put my own pennies (old ones) into, but I don't remember getting them out. cheers Maggie The Bank of England organised a takeover by a consortium of banks (National Provincial Bank, Westminster Bank, Williams Deacon's Bank, Lloyds Bank, Barclays Bank, Glyn Mills) and the Yorkshire Penny Bank adopted limited liability. After this the bank was able to offer overdrafts for the first time. In its centenary year of 1959 the bank's name changed to the more familiar Yorkshire Bank Limited. During the 1970s the bank became one of the first to offer fee-free banking whilst in credit, a move that took bigger rivals a decade to follow. In 1982 it adopted public limited company status. During the Miners' Strike of 1984-85 the bank offered miners who were mortgage holders a deferment, allowing them to postpone payments for the duration of the dispute. The strike took place in the bank's heartland and many miners were customers, having been encouraged by the National Coal Board to have their pay mandated to a bank account. In 1990 the NAB Group acquired the bank from the consortium of owning banks which, after mergers and acquisitions, were the National Westminster Bank, holders of (40%), Barclays Bank (32%), Lloyds Bank (20%), and Royal Bank of Scotland (8%). The price paid was £1 billion and the bank joined National Australia Bank's other European businesses, the Clydesdale Bank (Scotland) and the Northern Bank (Northern Ireland). In 2005 the National Australia Bank announced its intention to merge the Yorkshire Bank with the Clydesdale under one operating licence, in which the former would be a trading name of the latter. Both operate under separate identities although the Clydesdale brand is the one that has been used in further expansion into the south of England (The Northern Bank was sold to Danske Bank of Denmark along with its operations in the Republic of Ireland, the National Irish Bank). At the same time 40 branches were closed, a reduction of a fifth of the Yorkshire Bank network. [2] -----Original Message----- From: Jean Johnson <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Sat, 21 Nov 2009 15:04 Subject: Re: [WRY] Test Hi Maggie , How about , what happend to the Yorkshire Penny Bank. In the 1930,s I used to put pennies in an acount when I was was 6 or 7 years old. I stopped doing after a while. The Bank was located at Meanwood Stonegate Road opsite Kirby,s fish and chip shop. I often wonder what happened to those pennies.. Jean Canada. ________________________________ From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Sat, November 21, 2009 3:14:09 AM Subject: Re: [WRY] Test The WRY list seems to have no difficult topics to talk about, Mary Lou! I could find a few ... Maggie -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Sent: Sat, 21 Nov 2009 5:46 Subject: [WRY] Test haven't gotten any mail all evening?? Some useful websites - FREECEN - http://www.freecen.org.uk/ FREEBMD - http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/ Want to know where a place in Yorkshire is - Try Genuki http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message Some useful websites - FREECEN - http://www.freecen.org.uk/ FREEBMD - http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/ Want to know where a place in Yorkshire is - Try Genuki http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message __________________________________________________________________ Ask a question on any topic and get answers from real people. Go to Yahoo! Answers and share what you know at http://ca.answers.yahoo.com Some useful websites - FREECEN - http://www.freecen.org.uk/ FREEBMD - http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/ Want to know where a place in Yorkshire is - Try Genuki http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Many thanks Maggie for the information.  Like you, I did not draw out my pennies. I was told that there was a site on the internet where one could check for names  and for monnies that   was unclaimed from various places. Jean Canada ________________________________ From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Sat, November 21, 2009 1:41:40 PM Subject: Re: [WRY] Test Hi Jean, This what Wikipedia has to say (a bit abbreviated). It looks as if your only hope is to get Aussie Dollars back for your pennies! There was one in Hebden Bridge too, which I put my own pennies (old ones) into, but I don't remember getting them out. cheers Maggie The Bank of England organised a takeover by a consortium of banks (National Provincial Bank, Westminster Bank, Williams Deacon's Bank, Lloyds Bank, Barclays Bank, Glyn Mills) and the Yorkshire Penny Bank adopted limited liability. After this the bank was able to offer overdrafts for the first time. In its centenary year of 1959 the bank's name changed to the more familiar Yorkshire Bank Limited. During the 1970s the bank became one of the first to offer fee-free banking whilst in credit, a move that took bigger rivals a decade to follow. In 1982 it adopted public limited company status. During the Miners' Strike of 1984-85 the bank offered miners who were mortgage holders a deferment, allowing them to postpone payments for the duration of the dispute. The strike took place in the bank's heartland and many miners were customers, having been encouraged by the National Coal Board to have their pay mandated to a bank account. In 1990 the NAB Group acquired the bank from the consortium of owning banks which, after mergers and acquisitions, were the National Westminster Bank, holders of (40%), Barclays Bank (32%), Lloyds Bank (20%), and Royal Bank of Scotland (8%). The price paid was £1 billion and the bank joined National Australia Bank's other European businesses, the Clydesdale Bank (Scotland) and the Northern Bank (Northern Ireland). In 2005 the National Australia Bank announced its intention to merge the Yorkshire Bank with the Clydesdale under one operating licence, in which the former would be a trading name of the latter. Both operate under separate identities although the Clydesdale brand is the one that has been used in further expansion into the south of England (The Northern Bank was sold to Danske Bank of Denmark along with its operations in the Republic of Ireland, the National Irish Bank). At the same time 40 branches were closed, a reduction of a fifth of the Yorkshire Bank network. [2] -----Original Message----- From: Jean Johnson <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Sat, 21 Nov 2009 15:04 Subject: Re: [WRY] Test Hi Maggie , How about , what happend to the Yorkshire Penny Bank. In the 1930,s I used to put pennies in an acount when I was was 6 or 7 years old. I stopped doing after a while. The Bank was located at Meanwood  Stonegate Road  opsite Kirby,s fish and chip shop. I often wonder what happened to those pennies.. Jean Canada. ________________________________ From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Sat, November 21, 2009 3:14:09 AM Subject: Re: [WRY] Test The WRY list seems to have no difficult topics to talk about, Mary Lou! I could find a few ... Maggie -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Sent: Sat, 21 Nov 2009 5:46 Subject: [WRY] Test haven't gotten any mail all evening?? Some useful websites - FREECEN - http://www.freecen.org.uk/ FREEBMD - http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/ Want to know where a place in Yorkshire is - Try Genuki http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message Some useful websites - FREECEN - http://www.freecen.org.uk/ FREEBMD - http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/ Want to know where a place in Yorkshire is - Try Genuki http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message       __________________________________________________________________ Ask a question on any topic and get answers from real people. Go to Yahoo! Answers and share what you know at http://ca.answers.yahoo.com Some useful websites - FREECEN - http://www.freecen.org.uk/ FREEBMD - http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/ Want to know where a place in Yorkshire is - Try Genuki http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message Some useful websites - FREECEN - http://www.freecen.org.uk/ FREEBMD - http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/ Want to know where a place in Yorkshire is - Try Genuki http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message __________________________________________________________________ Be smarter than spam. See how smart SpamGuard is at giving junk email the boot with the All-new Yahoo! Mail. Click on Options in Mail and switch to New Mail today or register for free at http://mail.yahoo.ca