Editing Monopoly (game) (section)

===UK version===
{{See also|List of London Monopoly places|l1=List of London ''Monopoly'' places}}
{{For|other localized versions|List of licensed and localized editions of Monopoly: Europe#United Kingdom{{!}}List of licensed and localized editions of ''Monopoly'': Europe §&nbsp;United Kingdom}}
[[File:Monopoly.jpg|thumb|UK version of ''Monopoly'']]
In the 1930s, [[Waddingtons|John Waddington Ltd.]], known as Waddingtons, was a printing company in [[Leeds]] that had branched out into packaging and the production of [[playing card]]s.<ref name="Telegraph" /> Waddingtons had sent the card game ''Lexicon'' to Parker Brothers hoping to interest it in publishing the game in the United States. In a similar fashion, Parker Brothers sent over a copy of ''Monopoly'' to Waddingtons early in 1935 before the game had been put into production in the United States.

Victor Watson, the managing director of Waddingtons, gave the game to his son Norman, head of the card games division, to test over a weekend. Norman was impressed by the game and persuaded his father to call Parker Brothers on Monday morning—transatlantic calls then being almost unheard of.<ref name="Telegraph">{{Cite news |date=March 8, 2015 |title=Victor Watson, businessman - obituary |work=telegraph.co.uk |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/11457504/Victor-Watson-businessman-obituary.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220110/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/11457504/Victor-Watson-businessman-obituary.html |archive-date=January 10, 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |access-date=September 2, 2018}}{{cbignore}}</ref> This call resulted in Waddingtons obtaining a license to produce and market the game outside the United States.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Monopoly 1936 |url=https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1242178/monopoly-board-game-waddingtons-limited/ |access-date=September 2, 2018 |website=vam.ac.uk}}</ref>

Watson felt that for the game to be a success in the United Kingdom, the American locations would have to be replaced, so Victor and his secretary Marjory Phillips went to London to scout out locations.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Waddington's Monopoly |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/ahistoryoftheworld/objects/SrLMnS2pSOKuLYGw8RnmjA |access-date=September 2, 2018 |website=bbc.co.uk}}</ref><ref name="Telegraph" /> [[The Angel, Islington]] is not a street in London but a building (which also gave its name to the road intersection where it is located, as well as an [[Angel, London|area of the city]] and a [[Angel tube station|Tube station]]). It had been a [[coaching inn]] that stood on the [[A1 road (Great Britain)|Great North Road]]. By the 1930s, the inn had become a [[J. Lyons and Co.]] tea room and is today offices and a [[The Co-operative Bank|Co-operative Bank]]. Some accounts say that Marjory and Victor met at the Angel to discuss the selection and celebrated the fact by including it on the ''Monopoly'' board. In 2003, a plaque commemorating the naming was unveiled at the site by Victor Watson's grandson, who is also named Victor.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Monopoly |url=https://www.londonremembers.com/memorials/monopoly |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180902220643/https://www.londonremembers.com/memorials/monopoly |archive-date=September 2, 2018 |access-date=September 2, 2018 |website=londonremembers.com}}</ref>

It might be expected that the railway stations in Monopoly would have been chosen to allow travel in the four compass directions—for example: Euston, St Pancras or King's Cross (north); Liverpool Street or Fenchurch Street (east); London Bridge or Victoria (south); Paddington (west). However all four stations had been owned by the same company, [[London and North Eastern Railway|LNER]], prior to nationalisation as British Rail(ways). It has been suggested that Waddingtons chose LNER stations because this was the company that served Leeds where they were based.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Choice of Monopoly Board Stations |url=https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/choice-of-monopoly-board-stations.61633/ |access-date=December 1, 2023 |website=www.railforums.co.uk|date=March 10, 2012 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Moore|first=Tim |title=Do Not Pass Go |publisher=Vintage |date=2 October 2003 |isbn=978-0-09-943386-6}}</ref>

During World War II, the British Secret Service contacted Waddingtons, as the company could also print on silk, to make ''Monopoly'' sets that included escape maps, money, a compass and file, all hidden in copies of the game sent by fake [[POW]] relief charities to prisoners of war.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Garber |first=Megan |date=January 9, 2013 |title=How Monopoly Games Helped Allied POWs Escape During World War II: Even trivial changes to a trivial board game can shift the course of history |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/01/how-monopoly-games-helped-allied-pows-escape-during-world-war-ii/266996/ |access-date=April 23, 2015 |website=Atlantic.com |publisher=Atlantic Monthly}}</ref>

The standard British board, produced by Waddingtons, was for many years the version most familiar to people in countries in the [[Commonwealth of Nations|Commonwealth]], except Canada, where the US edition with Atlantic City-area names was reprinted. Local variants of the board are now also found in several Commonwealth countries.

In 1998, Winning Moves procured the ''Monopoly'' license from [[Hasbro]] and created new UK [[Licensed and localized editions of Monopoly|city and regional editions]]<ref>{{Cite web |date=June 7, 2017 |title=Winning Moves launches a Stirling Monopoly |url=https://toyworldmag.co.uk/news/winning-moves-launches-a-stirling-monopoly/ |access-date=September 3, 2018 |website=toyworldmag.co.uk |archive-date=September 3, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180903215324/https://toyworldmag.co.uk/news/winning-moves-launches-a-stirling-monopoly/ }}</ref> with sponsored squares. Initially, in December 1998, the game was sold in just a few [[W H Smith]] stores, but demand was high, with almost 50,000 games sold in the four weeks before Christmas. Winning Moves still produces new [[List of licensed and localized editions of Monopoly: Europe#United Kingdom|city and regional editions]] annually.

The original income tax choice from the 1930s US board is replaced by a flat rate on the UK board, and the $75 Luxury Tax space is replaced with the £100 Super Tax space, the same as the current German board. In 2008, the US edition was changed to match the UK and various European editions, including a flat $200 Income Tax value and an increased $100 Luxury Tax amount.<ref name="2008redesign" />

In cases where a national company produced the game, the $ (dollar) sign was replaced with the £ (pound), but the place names were unchanged.

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