Our (Very) Friendly Societies! Product:Canvas performing on the television programme

performing on the television programme Top Of The Pops

Tour of Europe '76

'Silenced'

leaving the Bank of England with two sacks

The proprietors' names and the nature of their businesses are given in the lower margin

Our (Very) Friendly Societies! Product:Canvas performing on the television programme'Our (Very) Friendly Societies!', 1886. The representative of Britain's honest and sober working class is diligently posting his small savings into the door of the Cormorant Friendly Society. On the other side of the door can be seen the 'cormorants', the directors of the society who are eating hugely, drinking deeply and enjoying the best cigars. This cartoon accompanies a poem of the same name which accuses such societies of keeping poor accounts,