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Series
Post Office Savings Bank and Department: Coupon Accounts Files
Catalogue reference: NSC 15
What's it about?
NSC 15
This series contains Post Office Savings Bank files relating to the coupon account scheme.
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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NSC 15
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Title (The name of the record)
- Post Office Savings Bank and Department: Coupon Accounts Files
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Date (When the record was created)
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1910-1936
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains Post Office Savings Bank files relating to the coupon account scheme.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
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Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
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English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
- Post Office Savings Bank, 1861-1969
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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14 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Subject to 30 year closure
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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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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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In order to bring down the cost of running the Bank, this scheme for small savings was introduced on 1 January 1912. From that date persons wishing to open accounts with, initially, less than £1, later, less than ten shillings, purchased one shilling coupons for affixing in Coupon Deposit Books. When coupons to the value of £1 had been saved, an ordinary account could be opened. The issue of Coupon Deposit Books ceased on 31 December 1934 and the sale of coupons was withdrawn on 2 March 1936.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C11325/
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