Are banknotes issue by bank of England especially 50 pound Notes legal tender through the whole of UK?
Yes. You can also use a Scottish bank note by the Bank of Scotland or Clydesdale bank in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. What matters is that it is Pounds Sterling. You can get £100 notes in Scotland but not in England. Basically, people tend to use what you get out of the cash machines and in England, this is money from the Bank of England and a mixture of Scottish and English banks in Scotland. People don’t tend to use £50 notes because cash machines don’t dispense them and you’d have to ask a bank for them specifically. A lot of places don’t accept £50 notes because they are commonly forged being the highest bank note value in England.
It is a fact that no UK currency notes are ‘legal tender’ in Scotland. Scottish notes are not ‘legal tender’ BUT they are ‘legal currency’. ‘Legal Tender’ is a technical term which is misunderstood by most people. (I got taught at university wot it means – which is very little really) Years ago, when old Labour was in power and the economy was destroyed by Labour (again), people were only allowed to take £50 abroad. (like Zimbabwe today). So Scots took Scottish pounds abroad. Wilson, the PM, stopped this by making the Scottish pounds legal currency.
