MADAM – In last week’s edition (‘Trading Places’ ATG No 2397), you include a short piece about the London Silver Vaults. It is only a small point, but the article states that the Chancery Lane Safe Deposit opened in 1876.
That date is wrong – somebody put the date onto the internet a while ago and it is hard to get it corrected because it keeps being repeated!
It actually opened in May 1885 and the Lord Mayor of London and a great many local dignitaries from the City of London, together with all the MPs from surrounding constituencies, attended the opening banquet and made grand speeches.