Cash in the Wind


Cash in the Wind

Kenneth Grahame - famous author and banking secretary.

Location: The Bank Of England, EC2R 8AH

Description: Who'd have thought it...a literary giant with a banking past.

Not only was Kenneth Grahame a British writer, mainly of the sort of fiction and fantasy written for children but enjoyed equally if not more by adults. He was also most famous for 'The Wind in the Willows' (1908), one of the classics of children's literature, and also wrote 'The Reluctant Dragon', which was much later adapted into a Disney movie.

But.. he also spent some time at the Bank of England as a 'Secretary'. Well I never...

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Cash in the Wind

Kenneth Grahame - famous author and banking secretary.

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