LONDON SAFETY DEPOSITS ARE AT PRESENT AT A PREMIUM
Air raids have led to a run on London’s safe deposits. Women are putting jewellery away in them and business firms have turned to the deposits to store valuable plans, securities, and other documents. All these people are influenced by the idea that if their homes or business premises are bombed there aro certain heirlooms or other valuables that they would not care to lose. So they pack them up, take them to the deposits, know their goods are safely stored away behind steel doors, and go away content. Each client is provided with a key of tho safe and no duplicate is in existence. The custodians do not know and do not want to know what is put in their safes. It is enough for them to know that the rent, which may he anything from £1 Is, or 355, to 25gs a year, is paid. The charges aro based not on the value of the articles stored, but on the sizo of tho safe. Space at nearly all of London’s deposits is now at a premium, and rents aro rising.
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Evening Star, Issue 23817, 22 February 1941, Page 19
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191LONDON SAFETY DEPOSITS ARE AT PRESENT AT A PREMIUM Evening Star, Issue 23817, 22 February 1941, Page 19
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