P.O. Savings Bank
Excerpt from a copy of a letter, 30 November 1860
Finding number: POST 75/35
This letter is from George Chetwynd. It tells Lord Stanley of Alderley just how a government savings bank to encourage 'the working classes in provident habits' might work in practice. Mr Chetwynd became the first Controller of the POSB.
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