Sue Darby (née Susan Austin) remembers:

"I was asked if I would be the model for demonstrating how to use the first open air cash machine that came to Northampton. That was at the Anglia Building Society which now is known as Nationwide and that, the cash machine was on the corner, I believe it’s now the Northampton Radio building at the top of Abington Street. This sort of metal container was on the side of the pathway and you could, it was a drive through, and you just drive your car in, stopped, popped your savings book into this little hole and a lady would ask you how much you would like, you told her, and the book reappeared with cash and you drove off, which was quite inventive for Northampton in 1962. It was quite something!"