On Sun, 07 Aug 2005 09:27:29 +0100, Ian Cornish "icornish at talk21
dot com" wrote:

It also depends on who you have your bank account with. If it's one of
the clearing banks (lloyds, Barclays, RBS, BOS, or HSBC), then it's 3
working days.

It used to be, but it now seems Barclays take five working days.
Halifax is nine working days, i.e nearly a fortnight !!

I once paid cash into a branch of Natwest, to a Natwest client's
account at another branch. It took three days to show up in his
account. HSBC shows up the same day if done before 4pm.