Commercial News Room

Originally, what is now the Skipton Building Society was the Commercial Coffee and News Room. In the early 1800s it was the custom for the well-educated to read newspapers out loud for the benefit of the illiterate (and to show off, one imagines). In the comfortable room on the upper storey they could make use of a well-stocked subscription library, read the latest editions of the Chester Courant and the Chester Chronicle, and sip coffee.

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