A
situation manifest itself this past year and no doubt is duplicated
throughout rural districts.
Lack of loose change! The
stuff small teashops and the like rely on when banks and post offices
are unavailable. Visitors to rural areas overlook not everyone has
access to hole in the wall banking. Or a ready supply of small
change.
Offering
a twenty pound note for a fifty pence purchase leaves the rural tea
room or shop keeper devoid of a much needed revenue. Having three
such transactions in succession and one may as well close because
teashops don’t give credit.
Government
ministers in far off Westminster and overpaid bank officials live in
another world where holes in walls are not made by over zealous
visitors or sheep looking for pastures new. Perhaps if Freemen of
London upheld their right to drive sheep over the capital’s bridges
and where else they may go, we in rural areas might procure some
sense and understanding from the wayward ‘sheep’ in Westminster’s
urban
Commons.
The
above can only become worse as holidays approach and rural banking in
whatever form is further depleted. Visitors are not always aware of
this deficiency. Common sense goes a long way, as does loose change.
If
you are visiting the Dales and other Rural areas please remember,
always carry plenty of loose change, as large denomination notes may
not be acceptable in future. Nor will be the harassed greetings from
rural shopkeepers and teashop proprietors in return.
