P.O. Savings Bank
War Savings Certificate book, c. 1916
Finding number: POST 75/95
This is an early example of a War Savings Certificate book. It was made to hold twelve certificates. The early books were pink but, due to a shortage of pink paper in wartime, later books were bound in different colours.
War Savings Certificates were introduced in 1916 to help finance the First World War. The certificates proved so popular that, by the end of the war, £207 million of them had been bought. They were renamed National Savings Certificates in 1920.
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