Do you know what this logo is?
If you don’t, and you are British, you probably should.
This is the first post in a series where I am sharing a walking tour I used to do about the British Empire. This is stop 1 of 8. You can read why I accidentally started doing them here ).
I would start my walking tour of the British Empire at Bank Station. I’d often show people this logo. Very few people can identify it. Do you know what it is?
I try very hard to give people clues. I mention that we are at Bank Station. And that Bank Station is named after a Bank. That we are standing outside of the Bank it is named after.
Most people aren’t able to identify it. They usually get that it is a bank, but very few people get that it is the Bank of England.
You might think that, given the Bank of England controls the money in everyone’s wallet, people might know more about them. Nope.
Most people can identify that the lady in the logo is Britannia. She is the symbol of the British Empire. But most people don’t associate her at all with banking — but they should — because banking and Britannia went hand in hand…
