Our (Very) Friendly Societies! Product:Canvas leaving the Bank of England

leaving the Bank of England with two sacks

Prince Philip the Duke of Edinburgh

The game ended in a goalless draw

performing on the television programme Top Of The Pops

Our (Very) Friendly Societies! Product:Canvas leaving the Bank of England'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,