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Aug. 31st, 2008
A Monday in London
Aug. 31st, 2008 08:19 pmAfter my brush with the law, I wandered westwards through Clerkenwell and Farringdon towards the British Museum. I didn’t stop taking photographs, and I saw lots of things I wanted to look at…
Indeed, had I not been stopped by the police, I would never have noticed the building on the right: I was standing right beside it whilst being interviewed. The detail below the windows intrigued me: it reads “National Penny Bank”. I had never heard of this institution before; its headquarters appear to have been in Great Eastern Street, a little to the east of Clerkenwell, and it promoted thrift. The photograph is of a building called Penny Bank Chambers. The bank ceased trading in 1890. (What did we do before Google?)
( More text and pictures beneath the cut… )
Indeed, had I not been stopped by the police, I would never have noticed the building on the right: I was standing right beside it whilst being interviewed. The detail below the windows intrigued me: it reads “National Penny Bank”. I had never heard of this institution before; its headquarters appear to have been in Great Eastern Street, a little to the east of Clerkenwell, and it promoted thrift. The photograph is of a building called Penny Bank Chambers. The bank ceased trading in 1890. (What did we do before Google?)
( More text and pictures beneath the cut… )
A Monday in London
Aug. 31st, 2008 08:19 pmAfter my brush with the law, I wandered westwards through Clerkenwell and Farringdon towards the British Museum. I didn’t stop taking photographs, and I saw lots of things I wanted to look at…
Indeed, had I not been stopped by the police, I would never have noticed the building on the right: I was standing right beside it whilst being interviewed. The detail below the windows intrigued me: it reads “National Penny Bank”. I had never heard of this institution before; its headquarters appear to have been in Great Eastern Street, a little to the east of Clerkenwell, and it promoted thrift. The photograph is of a building called Penny Bank Chambers. The bank ceased trading in 1890. (What did we do before Google?)
( More text and pictures beneath the cut… )
Indeed, had I not been stopped by the police, I would never have noticed the building on the right: I was standing right beside it whilst being interviewed. The detail below the windows intrigued me: it reads “National Penny Bank”. I had never heard of this institution before; its headquarters appear to have been in Great Eastern Street, a little to the east of Clerkenwell, and it promoted thrift. The photograph is of a building called Penny Bank Chambers. The bank ceased trading in 1890. (What did we do before Google?)
( More text and pictures beneath the cut… )