I recently went on a tour of The Bank of England with Dave & Cuffy. For obvious reasons you can't take photos, but the chap in pink in the photo is the doorman. Apparently the servants of one of the governors of the bank wore this uniform, and it's stuck. Hmm. Pink. Those poor servants.Naturally the Bank is wonderful inside, and even has a courtyard garden. It's not as old as it looks though. As the Bank grew they realised they needed bigger premises, but by this time they were surrounded by other lovely buildings. So they deomlished the inside, leaving the outerwalls intact, and built upwards instead of outwards. It was only finished in the 1940's, but still has many of the original fixtures and features.
These next pictures are of the area surrounding the Bank.
Statue for James Greathead who inventing the machine that made cutting tunnels for the tube possible.
The 'Old Lady of Threadneedle Street': the Bank of England
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