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Although it doesn't change your conclusion, there have been more June Bank Holidays than those you mentioned.
The Coronation (2nd June 1953) was a Bank Holiday. Also, until 1967 Whit Monday was a Bank Holiday, and that frequently falls in June (it is June 6th this year). However, even when it fell on June 1st it would not have been a month after the May Day Bank Holiday, because that wasn't introduced until 1973 and in any case is always moved to the first Monday in May (so would fall on May 4th if June 1st was a Monday)

Timbo | 02.05.22 - 8:08 a.m. | #

The bank holiday for the 75th anniversary of VE Day turned out to be rather redundant, all things considered!

Jamesthegill | 02.05.22 - 8:16 a.m. | #

Updated, thanks.

diamond geezer | Homepage | 02.05.22 - 8:49 a.m. | #

Good thing the May bank holiday has survived multiple attempts of abolition.

Patrickov | 02.05.22 - 8:52 a.m. | #

Timbo- the May day bank holiday was introduced by the then Labour Government in 1978. The 1973 change was the introduction in England and Wales of the New Year's day Bank Holiday.

David Cook | 02.05.22 - 9:19 a.m. | #

Seems like it was only a few days ago it was the Easter Bank Holiday!!

I'm guessing an early April Easter Monday and May Day Monday are never 1 month apart then?

Cornish Cockney | 02.05.22 - 9:57 a.m. | #

Cornish Cockney: I wondered about that for a while too, with Easter being a moveable feast an all, but eventually realised that Easter Monday was at best 28 days (or another integer multiple of seven days) before the May bank holiday Monday, and good Friday is a Friday so at best 31 days (plus/minus an integer multiple of seven) before the May bank holiday. But April has 30 days. So it just never works, as far as I can see, unless we add an extra day to April.

It was 31st April and the clocks struck 13.

Andrew | 02.05.22 - 10:33 a.m. | #

What about the gold-crisis bank holiday of Friday 15 March 1968 (alarmingly proclaimed “for all the purposes of the Bank Holidays Act 1871” by The Queen half an hour into the day itself and duly observed by the Bank of England and the Stock Exchange albeit exempted from applying via the Holidays Extension Act 1875 to revenue and dock workers and admittedly somehow not stopping over-the-counter banking nor in practice preventing a a nationwide pre-budget shopping spree nor giving rise to an emergency edition of Bank Holiday Grandstand) followed by the regular Easter bank holiday of Monday 15 April 1968?

Rich G | Homepage | 02.05.22 - 10:56 p.m. | #

That took 12 hours longer than I was expecting :)

I ignored 15 March 1968 as not being a proper 'everyone gets the day off' holiday, but if you choose to include it then yes, by a mighty coincidence it just happened to be exactly one month before Easter Monday.

diamond geezer | Homepage | 02.05.22 - 11:41 p.m. | #

I recall a bank holiday proclamation posted on a board on Cheapside, but it was signed by "two lords of the Treasury" , eg the PM and the chancellor. No mention of the Queen.

Mike D | 03.05.22 - 12:34 a.m. | #

Maybe the Treasury Lords countersigned the royal proclamation.

After the dubious go-to-work bank holiday of March 1968, the law was changed in 1971 to allow the Treasury themselves to direct the suspension of financial dealings without also entitling workers to a day off but “As far as we [the UK Financial Markets Law Committee] have been able to ascertain , the … power has never been exercised.”

Rich G | Homepage | 04.05.22 - 12:01 a.m. | #











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