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Series
Post Office Savings Bank: Ledgers of Depositors' Accounts
Catalogue reference: NSC 8
What's it about?
NSC 8
This series contains a sample of bound ledgers containing details of depositors' accounts.
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- NSC 8
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Title (The name of the record)
- Post Office Savings Bank: Ledgers of Depositors' Accounts
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains a sample of bound ledgers containing details of depositors' accounts.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- Creating government department or its successor
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Retained by department
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Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
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- Topics
- Banking
- Communications
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Selection and destruction information (Information about how the record was selected for archiving)
- In 1977, at the time when the Post Office Savings Bank moved headquarters to Glasgow, the Director of National Savings suggested that the previously selected sample be reduced to six ledgers which would remain in the custody of the Bank. The Public Record Office agreed to this proposal. Provision for destruction of the superseded ledgers was made by the Ninth Post Office Schedule, dated 1943.
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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The Post Office Savings Bank opened on 16 September 1861 with headquarters in Blythe Street, West Kensington. In January 1977 the Bank moved its headquarters to Glasgow.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C11318/
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