Due to Covid-19, the last time I was in the UK was in 2019 for a weekend in Glasgow. I'd come across the new fiver and the tenner but I haven't come across the new polymer £20 or £50 polymer banknotes.
The new £20 went in to circulation on 20 February 2020.
©Bank of England
The new £50 went in to circulation on 23 June 2021.
The back of the £50 banknote features Alan Turing, the "father of modern computing" whose code breaking is believed to have shortened the war in Europe by at least two years. In 1952 he was prosecuted for being gay and in 2021 he's featured on the back of the new £50.
Like in Czechland, the British are also retiring their old banknotes. Here's a short video about it that I found on YouTube.
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