The Bank of England’s gold vaults hold £194bn worth of gold bars. If you stacked them all on top of each other, they would be the same height as 46 Eiffel Towers. They hardly ever let anyone in ...

Learn the story of the Bank of England from its foundation ... There is also a display of gold, including ancient examples of gold bars from Roman times as well as modern ones, alongside pikes ...

(Bloomberg) -- Every day in London, thousands of commuters on the Central Line take a subterranean detour around the Bank of England’s vast underground ... the Bank describes as “digging out” gold ...