# British dopers: penny questions

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/british-dopers-penny-questions/279253>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [December 11, 2004, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/british-dopers-penny-questions/279253 "2004-12-11T02:57:14Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2004, 11:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/british-dopers-penny-questions/279253/21 "2004-12-13T11:59:09Z")

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> [@owlstretchingtime](#):
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> They don’t store old notes - they burn 'em. In Debden in Essex. l I think they shred some of them too.

That’s the place I was thinking of, but I didn’t realise it’s not the mint …thanks. (It’s the Debden M11 junction that I was talking about - there’s no slip road to join it northbound.)

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**Author:** ![owlstretchingtime](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/958977/32.png) [@owlstretchingtime](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/owlstretchingtime)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2004, 12:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/british-dopers-penny-questions/279253/22 "2004-12-13T12:06:34Z")

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> [@GorillaMan](#):
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> That’s the place I was thinking of, but I didn’t realise it’s not the mint …thanks. (It’s the Debden M11 junction that I was talking about - there’s no slip road to join it northbound.)

This is typicaly British; rebuild a motorway for security reasons and fail to notice little old ladies stuffing banknotes up their jumpers!

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**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2004, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/british-dopers-penny-questions/279253/23 "2004-12-13T12:27:29Z")

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> [@owlstretchingtime](#):
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> This is typicaly British; rebuild a motorway for security reasons and fail to notice little old ladies stuffing banknotes up their jumpers!

So, so true. Plus several ‘Property of the Bank of England’ sackbarrows that have ended up in my grandmother’s greenhouse nearby.

And in any case, it’s hardly like a brazen robbery would be foiled by the theives not wanting to drive the wrong way up an exit slip road :smack:

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