LIBS - "promotion price" rises from £12 to £13

[Steve Clayton]

https://nbs-london.yourticketbookin...re to buy your ticket from just 13 Quote CM13

and a £1.75 book on line fee

 

[nigelmercier]

I note that on a standard day, I am now eligible for a £12 concession ticket. How does one provide proof of age?

 

[Tidewaiter2]

I note that on a standard day, I am now eligible for a £12 concession ticket. How does one provide proof of age?

You remember when it was at Earls Court, and Westerlies were exhibitors

 

[robertj]

I note that on a standard day, I am now eligible for a £12 concession ticket. How does one provide proof of age?

send a pic?

 

[pvb]

You remember when it was at Earls Court, and Westerlies were exhibitors

I certainly do, I bought a Centaur at Earls Court!

 

[AntarcticPilot]

I note that on a standard day, I am now eligible for a £12 concession ticket. How does one provide proof of age?

On our pre-retirement course, we were told that the best reason for a man to get a bus pass was because it provided proof of eligibility for many age-related concessions. It's quite true - very little else you carry routinely gives proof of age, and bus-passes are easily recognisable!

 

[prv]

very little else you carry routinely gives proof of age

?

Driving license, surely?

Pete

 

[AntarcticPilot]

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Driving license, surely?

Pete

Not necessarily, if you still have the old style paper licence, and cut the corner with your date of birth off, as you were allowed to do.

 

[nigelmercier]

On our pre-retirement course, we were told that the best reason for a man to get a bus pass was because it provided proof of eligibility for many age-related concessions...

I just looked online and it appears that I can't get one until I reach state pension age. I thought you got them at 60?

BTW, it's easy to decode your age from a driving licence number, from the first numeric characters:

YMMDDY, the first M digit has 5 added if female, so is 0/1 for a man, 5/6 for a woman.

 

[AntarcticPilot]

I just looked online and it appears that I can't get one until I reach state pension age. I thought you got them at 60?

BTW, it's easy to decode your age from a driving licence number, from the first numeric characters:

YMMDDY, the first M digit has 5 added if female, so is 0/1 for a man, 5/6 for a woman.

It's a little more complex - you get them at the state pension age for a woman of the same age as you. I'm not due for the state pension for another 4 years, but I became eligible for a bus-pass this year. There's an on-line calculator, somewhere on the gov.uk sites, to allow you to figure it out.

And yes, of course you're right about the D.O.B being encoded on an old-style license - but it isn't a quick reference. Further, as far as I recall (it's 40+ years since I first applied for a Driving license ) you didn't need to give proof of age to get a driving license in that distant era; they took your word for it!