Beginning with the founding of the Bank in the aftermath of the Glorious Revolution, we shall examine the high and low spots in 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 bank note, forgery and counterfeiting, the Gold Standard, the buildings on the Threadneedle Street site, the employment of women in 1894, personalities associated or with connections to the Bank including Kenneth Grahame, T.E. Lawrence and Montagu Norman and end with some delightfully scurrilous cartoons of the institution and its denizens from the 18th to the 21st centuries.