"For a lot of older people, that isn't a choice, " said Penny Banks, of the King's Fund health care charity in London.
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In the mid-1850s, he helped found the Yorkshire Penny Bank ( to encourage workers to save ), and he worked closely with the Halifax Permanent Building Society ( later the Halifax Building Society ) to promote home ownership through his model village Akroydon.
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The English made basset quite different from what it was in France where, by royal edict, the public at large were not allowed to play at more than a franc or ten-penny bank, and the losses or gains could not bring desolation to a family.
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However, it was " of so bewitching a nature, " says our old writer, " by reason of the several multiplications and advantages which it seemingly offered to the unwary punter, that a great many like it so well that they would play at small game rather than give out; and rather than not play at all would punt at six-penny, three-penny, nay, a two-penny bank, so much did the hope of winning the quinze-et-le-va and the trente-et-le-va intoxicate them ."
