The father of savings banks

Issue 521 | 18 August 2023

My first financial goal

Although I’d never been to Cheshunt and I didn’t know what a Building Society actually did my teenage self dutifully visited the counters of the Cheshunt Building Society¹ each Saturday to handover a small portion of my weekly newspaper round earnings.

In return for handing over a couple of pound notes to the person behind the count…