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Re: Years Gone By
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Originally Posted by WillowTheWhisp
I think she got them from the register office or whatever it was which was up Avenue Parade opposite where Peel House now is. I used to call in on behalf of the bank and we did the same thing - sent all new babies a card and if the parent brought the card to the bank we opened the baby an account with five shillings and gave them a free locked box type thing to save up in - known as a "home safe" which they had to bring in to the bank to be unlocked. Mad or what?
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I had one of those Willow.....it was in the shape of a book and bound in a leatherette type of stuff.......wonder what happened to it?
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