Write a short note on Tellson Bank NU Tellson s Bank is an important place in A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens It stands as a symbol of old traditions The bank is tiny dark and old-fashioned Dickens describes it as very small very dark very ugly very incommodious It never changes even though the world around it is changing fast Location of the Bank It appears many times in the story The two cities in the novel are London and Paris Tellson s Bank represents the London branch It is near Temple Bar the gate that separates London from Westminster There is also a branch in Paris which connects the two cities Background of Tellson s Bank The bank is old and dull but its workers are proud of it They see no need to modernize it The old furniture dark rooms and slow ways show its