If I remember, issued on the spot. No need to send applications the the passport office? But only a young ung then, so may be incorrect. I just remember going a school trip to Germany, and filling out a form, and the passport being issued on the spot by the Post Office.
Could be because many don’t understand what ‘No Smoking’ means
The local Charter Fair was still doing that in 2022.
Drunk guy wins a tortoise at the fairground hoopla. Goes away, comes back 30 minutes later. Wins another tortoise. Goes away, comes back another 30 minutes later, has another go on the hoopla and wins yet again. The fairground guy says, "Sorry, no tortoises left" and the drunk guy says "Never mind a tortoise - just give me another of those crusty pies - they're delicious."
It might even qualify for the recent thread about “best pies”…
That's only a recommendation though, it has no impact on the actual validity of the passport.
Definitely not out of the question.
Agreed but there are a number of places (e.g. Turkey, Singapore, China, Egypt) which require 6 months validity.
Which they would still require even if you could transfer unused validity to your new passport. If you want to say that "more than ten years" validity on your passport is something that doesn't exist any more then fair enough, but passports are still valid for ten years.
Ok. One for pedantry corner.
Hence a rude joke
The brand is gone. The concept of the voice recorder is alive and well. Including dedicated hardware devices, not just apps.
I obtained a one-year visitor passport for a youth orchestra trip to France in the early 90s - I think it was '93. All I had to do was take a passport-sized photograph along to the main post office in town and it was issued on the spot. I can't recall which, if any, identity documents I had to provide, but I would have had my paper driving licence and birth certificate. I'm fairly certain that the photo was attached with Pritt Stick! I can't remember how much it cost, but it wasn't a huge amount of money.
Is that the one where the secretary walks into their boss's office and asks if they can use his dictaphone?
I didn't back then! I just bought the cheapest.
60 mins were always poorer quality than 45; think to fit more tape in it was thinner so didn't last as long. Also you had to remember where your pencil was!
It was a brave person that put a 120 minute cassette in the player in the car.
Although I never had one, my parents were staying down south and didn't have their passports with them, but their tour company offered a "shopping day trip" to Calais, which they fancied, and they went to (I assume) the Post Office and obtained a temporary paper passport with their photo on. I know I still have them around, just a case of going through all their memorabelia and finding it! If I do I'll post on here, but those temporary - or day passes - were certainly a thing.
They were withdrawn in 1996, so long before Brexit. They weren't very secure and some countries such as Spain were threatening to stop accepting them.
Before Schengen I think those passes were only available for France so you couldn't (say) use them to enter Belgium?
and Pink String. Also red leather seats in even the most basic of cars which were the very devil to sit on for any length of time while wearing shorts.
