Blythe House is a listed building located at 23 Blythe Road, West Kensington, London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham, UK. Originally built as the headquarters of the Post Office Savings Bank, it is now used as a store and archive by the Victoria and Albert, Science and British Museums. In the 2015 Autumn Statement the Government announced it would fund new storage for the museums and then sell off Blythe House.
The main (North) block of Blythe House, seen from Hazlitt Road
The main block of Blythe House, in c.1924
The eastern extension of Blythe House, with the post office in front
Female clerks attending to savings ledgers
National Savings and Investments
National Savings and Investments (NS&I), formerly called the Post Office Savings Bank and National Savings, is a state-owned savings bank in the United Kingdom. It is both a non-ministerial government department and an executive agency of HM Treasury. The aim of NS&I has been to attract funds from individual savers in the UK for the purpose of funding the government's deficit. NS&I attracts savers through offering savings products with tax-free elements on some products, and a 100% guarantee from HM Treasury on all deposits. As of 2017, approximately 9% of the government's debt is met by funds raised through NS&I, around half of which is from the Premium Bond offering.
National Savings and Investments
From the 1860s onwards, customers would take their deposit book, such as this 1869 example, to a Post Office each time they made a transaction
A publicity stamp from around the end of the Second World War urging investors to buy National Savings Certificates for National Reconstruction
A National Savings Week publicity label from 1949
