Bank of England note issues
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The Bank of England, the central bank of the United Kingdom, has issued banknotes since 1694. In 1921 it gained a legal monopoly on the issue of banknotes in England and Wales, a process that started
A collection of Bank of England banknotes
£5 note issued by the Fox, Fowler and Company bank in Wellington, Somerset
Obverse side of the 10/– Treasury note
Series A £1 note, issued from London in 1805
The pound sterling is the official currency of the United Kingdom, Jersey, Guernsey, the Isle of Man, British Antarctic Territory, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, and Tristan da Cunha. W
Bank of England note issues
…and Wales, where its notes are legal tender. They are not legal tender in Scotland and Northern Ireland, but are accepted there by traders alongside their local notes. Banknotes were originally hand-written; although they were partially printed from 1725 onwards, cashiers still had to sign each note and make them…
An example of a provincial English banknote: a £1 note issued in 1814 by the Gloucester Old Bank
The Debden Security Printing Ltd printing facility, owned by De La Rue, which prints Bank of England banknotes
Sir Winston Churchill
J. M. W. Turner