Coutts Bank
23 February 2012//
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If we carry on walking down the Strand away from Charing Cross station, we soon see, on the north side of the street, the imposing sight of Coutts bank:
Dickens would probably be pleased to see that his old bank is still on the Strand, although it used to be on the other side of the street:
Thomas Coutts seems to have been an eccentric man, who preferred to dress scruffily and to hide his wealth, rather than display it: