Some cool small business loan images:
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Image by Andy Maluche
A small family business financed through a micro loan. It is a small sari sari store and a solar powered cell phone charging station.
Pawnbrokers (Bristol)
Image by brizzle born and bred
image above: Bristol Pawnbrokers Ticket, Silas/Russell, October 1812
Bristol pawnbrokers today, you can count on your fingers of one hand but, according to Wright's Street Directory for 1892, there were once over 50 and it listed them in three walks so that you could call on them all without going over the same ground twice.
New age of pawnbrokers?
At a time when small firms continue to complain that banks are unwilling to lend, pawnbrokers across the UK are reporting a big rise in the number of business people coming to them for short-term loans.
See links below for Bristol Pawnbrokers
www.flickr.com/photos/brizzlebornandbred/2093497041/
www.flickr.com/photos/brizzlebornandbred/2078704608/
