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View of the National Provincial Bank at no 112 Bishopsgate Street

Christopher Atkinson in the pillory outside the Corn Exchange

Motor Cycle Racing at oulton Park

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Our (Very) Friendly Societies! mb-height 6658 View of the National Provincial'Our (Very) Friendly Societies!', 1886. The representative of Britain's honest and sober working class is diligently posting his small savings into the door of the Cormorant Friendly Society. On the other side of the door can be seen the 'cormorants', the directors of the society who are eating hugely, drinking deeply and enjoying the best cigars. This cartoon accompanies a poem of the same name which accuses such societies of keeping poor accounts,