Beginning with the founding of the Bank in the aftermath of the Glorious Revolution we shall examine the high and low spots of the development of the institution over 250 years until 1946, when it was taken into public ownership. We shall also look at the evolution of the banknote, forgery, the buildings on the Threadneedle Street site, the employment of women in 1894, personalities associated with the Bank including Kenneth Grahame, TE Lawrence and Montagu Norman and end with some scurrilous cartoons of the institution from the 18th to the 21st centuries.