Old favourite, Reg Varney, has been in the news today. On 27th June 1967, forty years ago, he was the first person to use a cash machine. He withdrew £10, the maximum in those days, from a hole in the wall at Barclays Bank, Enfield. A small crowd witnessed the event. To put that historic moment into some perspective, it is believed there will be 2 million cash machines around the world by 2010. The busiest time for cash machines is the one hour period between midday and 1pm on the Friday before Christmas - last year a staggering £57 million was withdrawn in that sixty minutes.
Nearly every report I have seen refers to Reg Varney, 'from On The Buses'. He was of course famous for his role of Stan Butler in that series, but in actual fact On The Buses did not start until 1969. In 1967, Reg was starring in another hit sit-com, Beggar My Neighbour.
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