A retired pensioner charged with a number of bank heists from over 40 years ago will appear again in court on Tuesday, after police laid an additional charge in relation to the historical robberies.

Ross Oliver McCarty, from Edgecliff in Sydney's inner east, was first arrested in December last year following a police investigation into a series of Sydney bank robberies in the late 1970s.

The man was first arrested in Edgecliff on December 20, 2018. Credit:Police Media

The 69-year-old is alleged to have handed threatening notes to bank tellers before stealing cash at eight banks across the CBD and Chatswood between June 1977 and March 1978.

Police will on Tuesday allege at Central Local Court that Mr McCarty robbed another bank, on the corner of George and Liverpool streets, in Sydney on May 12, 1977.