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 ...

The Bank of England holds about 420,000 gold bars, and January saw the biggest outflow since 2012. Staff dug out about 8,145 bars — averaging 370 per working day — last month, but still a ...