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A '''bank holiday''' was a day of leisure, usually held on a [[Monday]], observed at least in the [[United Kingdom]]. | A '''bank holiday''' was a day of leisure, usually held on a [[Monday]], observed at least in the [[United Kingdom]]. The [[Seventh Doctor]] called [[August]] bank holiday a "silly [[pagan]] festival". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Lungbarrow]]'') The holiday caused a great amount of [[Car|traffic]], particularly in [[Norfolk]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Instruments of Darkness]]'') | ||
According to a story she once told [[Merry Gejelh]], [[Clara Oswald]] once had a life-changing moment on a bank holiday spent in [[Blackpool]]. There, on a crowded [[beach]], she got separated from [[Ellie Oswald|her mother]]. Clara was afraid, but her mother's reassurances after the event allowed her to conquer the fear of getting lost. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Rings of Akhaten (TV story)|The Rings of Akhaten]]'') | According to a story she once told [[Merry Gejelh]], [[Clara Oswald]] once had a life-changing moment on a bank holiday spent in [[Blackpool]]. There, on a crowded [[beach]], she got separated from [[Ellie Oswald|her mother]]. Clara was afraid, but her mother's reassurances after the event allowed her to conquer the fear of getting lost. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Rings of Akhaten (TV story)|The Rings of Akhaten]]'') | ||
[[Jackie Tyler]] regularly used her bank holiday Mondays to watch [[Cliff Richard]] movies. This inadvertently helped her daughter, [[Rose Tyler|Rose]], fit in better when she visited [[1950s]] [[Britain]], because the movies familiarised her with some of the lingo of that era. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Idiot's Lantern (TV story)|The Idiot's Lantern]]'') | [[Jackie Tyler]] regularly used her bank holiday Mondays to watch [[Cliff Richard]] movies. This inadvertently helped her daughter, [[Rose Tyler|Rose]], fit in better when she visited [[1950s]] [[Britain]], because the movies familiarised her with some of the lingo of that era. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Idiot's Lantern (TV story)|The Idiot's Lantern]]'') | ||
[[Ernie Evans]] remembers his mother taking him to [[Margate]] on a hot bank holiday, the scorching [[sun]] making the [[sand]] almost too hot to bare. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Amorality Tale]]'') [[Ben Jackson]] sarcastically offered "Margate on a rainy bank holiday Monday" as their possible location instead of the [[planet]] [[Vulcan (The Power of the Daleks)|Vulcan]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Power of the Daleks (novelisation)|The Power of the Daleks]]'') | |||
[[Martin (The Glarn Strategy)|Martin]] would be forced to watch ''[[Gone with the Wind]]'' every bank holiday. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Glarn Strategy]]'') [[Ace]] recalled [[Sergeant]] [[Drew Smith]] bringing in a [[parachute]] team to [[Perivale Youth Centre]] one cold, [[rainy]] bank holiday. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Nightshade (novel)|Nightshade]]'') | |||
While looking for the [[Tenth Doctor]], [[Minnie Hooper]] told [[Wilfred Mott]] and the rest of the [[Silver Cloak]] that she'd been locked inside a [[police box]] during the [[August]] bank holiday of [[1962]] and that she'd "misbehaved". ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'') | While looking for the [[Tenth Doctor]], [[Minnie Hooper]] told [[Wilfred Mott]] and the rest of the [[Silver Cloak]] that she'd been locked inside a [[police box]] during the [[August]] bank holiday of [[1962]] and that she'd "misbehaved". ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'') | ||
When the Seventh Doctor and Ace found [[Oxford]] on [[Thursday]] [[18 November]] [[1994]] to be too quiet, Ace considered that it might be a bank holiday. The Doctor confirmed that it was not. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Dimension Riders]]'') | |||
Bank holiday weekend in the year [[2000]] did not end until [[Tuesday]] [[4 January]]. It started at some point before [[1 January|the new year]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Millennium Shock]]'') | |||
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