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…
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