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Bank of england welcomes you into its vaults via an app this article is more than 6 years old.
The bank of england vault. Beneath the bank of england in. Britains queen elizabeth tours a gold vault during a visit to the bank of england in the city of london december 13 2012. The bank claims to store over 400000 good delivery bars in its vaults. Virtual tour app takes you inside the famous building and its gold vault with 3600 panoramic views new app gives the public a virtual tour of the uk central banks.
Panoramic tour on the app shows stacks of shining gold bars each weighing around 13kg and valued. Reuterseddie mulholland take the virtual tour here. Chemistry professor martyn poliakoff and video journalist brady haran get a very rare peek into a bank of england vault where 197billion in gold bars is stored. We only own two gold bars.
Who owns the gold at the bank of england. In the past you could exchange banknotes for the equivalent value in gold at the bank of england but this has not been possible since the early 1930s. That makes the bank of england the second largest keeper of gold in the world the new york federal reserve tops the list. The bank of englands gold vaults hold 194bn worth of gold bars.
Our gold vaults hold around 400000 bars of gold worth over 100 billion. Queen elizabeth ii tours the gold vault during her visit to the bank of england in central london. You can however hold a real gold bar in the bank of england museum. Bank of england charges for its gold storage 35 pence per bar per night.
If you stacked them all on top of each other they would be the same height as 46 eiffel towers. The gold bars in these vaults support the london gold clearing system and provide the gold supply for the london gold. Visit the bank of england museum. The bank of england gold vaults are located on 2 underground levels beneath the banks headquarters in the city of london.
Bank of england virtual tour the value of gold bar at the start of august 2016 was around 411770. Both of these are on display.
