Which is also the way staff enter on their bicycles or dignitaries arrive in chauffeur driven.
Bank of england vault door.
Obsolete computers lie abandoned in the corner.
Several thousand 28lb bars of 24 carat gold stored in the bank of england s massive underground vault.
The gold is kept in nine underground vaults and we guard it very carefully.
The bank also stores cash and bullion in its vaults which gets in and out through the back door.
Indeed less than a decade ago the noble metal was trading at a mere 275 an.
For the 1962 british crime drama see strongroom film.
The solid rectangular vault door protected the main vault of a bank building originally constructed in 1952.
Quick bag search inside the front door make a right and you re into a room that looks just like a normal bank perspex screens and all albeit with impressive paintings of previous governors on.
To the right of the door s center are two linked boxes for the combination mechanisms and to the left is a four movement time lock.
As the doors to the bank of england s lifts slide open the underground corridor that greets you doesn t feel like it leads somewhere important.
Our secret gold mine hidden under london s streets it s meant to be one of the most secret vaults in britain but yesterday the bank of england broke its own cast iron rule.
Our customers are the uk government banks and other governments around the world.
We look after more than 400 000 gold bars worth billions of pounds.
A new virtual tour app takes you inside the famous building and its gold vault with 360 degree panoramic views share this video.
Take a tour inside the vaults at the bank of england.
Below the bank of england is one of the largest store of gold anywhere in the world.
If a bank robber was somehow able to get through the solid granite wall perimeter and past the squadrons of machinegun wielding guards and armed military the thief would still have to contend with a 22 ton vault door.
Bank of england vaults.