Harrogate and hand recognition

This weekend my wife and I were in Harrogate for a wedding. It was a traditional english wedding which we really enjoyed. 
Harrogate is named the happiest place to live in UK. It's a typical english place with stunning parks and beautiful old buildings.

When we tried to fly out of Leeds/Bradford's airport (because of delays we eventually flew out of Manchester), just after the security check I spotted this old biometric time punch system of Recognition.
Once considered hightech but never a real breakthrough in the global biometric market.
Nevertheless it's good to see Harrogaters live in the 21st century ;-)