A £15 bank note on the Rickmansworth Bank, dated 12th March 1820, was offered to the Public Library Committee by the chairman (Mr F J B Hemming) at their meeting on Friday. The note was accepted with thanks and it was decided to frame it for exhibition.

[From the Watford Observer of July 16, 1927]

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