Banking on the High Street

Issue 271 | 22 February 2022

The most common street name in the United Kingdom is “High Street”. Did you know that it is derived from the Old English word “heah” which means “most important”?

Social historian Juliet Gardiner explains that “it was in the 1860s and 70s that the High Street as we know it came about. Because of urbanisation, people no longer had the facilities to grow f…