Shooting London
<p>Most of my chance encounters with London’s rich history and culture happen at street level. A not-very-well-known cul-de-sac, a hidden square, an otherwise unremarkable building. They all carry the marks of time, but I’m usually on pavement or road territory, looking up at a plaque or sign.</p>
<p>Not this time. We’d gone up to a pocket park in one of east London’s recent redevelopments, The Stage. Whilst there I happened to look across to the building next door and spotted the name “Penny Bank Chambers” on it. Of course, my curiosity was piqued.</p>
<p>The Penny Bank Chambers (or National Penny Bank) was created in 1859 by Colonel Edward Akroyd In Halifax, Yorkshire, as an organisation with philanthropic aims. It provided a means of saving for the working classes. One feature that set them apart from better-known big banks was that they remained open in the evenings, thus, making it easy for those low down in the pecking order to put their hard-earned pennies away.</p>
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