What is Bank Holidays
The Bank Holiday, is the statutory holiday of the UK, we can tell from the name that the bank doesn’t open in that day. For old capitalist countries like UK, if the bank close, that means all commercial activities will stop, and no one go to work.
It’s said that the bank holiday was proposed by John Lubbock, and the reason of this suggestion is relate to British Cricket sport.
Back to that cricket popular days, lots of inter-city cricket games were not held on rest days, which was very inconvenient for people work in banks, and it brought complaints. According to the provisions of that time, bank people can’t ask for leave in working days, so many bank staff are extremely unhappy with it.
It so happened that Sir John is also a cricket Super Fans, when he learned of the difficulties of the bank staff, he immediately submitted the application to Congress and it has been passed, since then, Bank Holiday we went into the British daily lives.