The Bank Of England Vault

Bank of england welcomes you into its vaults via an app this article is more than 6 years old.

The bank of england vault. Reuterseddie mulholland take the virtual tour here. Visit the bank of england museum. 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. Panoramic tour on the app shows stacks of shining gold bars each weighing around 13kg and valued.

The bank of englands gold vaults hold 194bn worth of gold bars. 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. Break into the bank of england.

You can however hold a real gold bar in the bank of england museum. 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. Our gold vaults hold around 400000 bars of gold worth over 100 billion. Can i buy gold from the bank of england.

Bank of england charges for its gold storage 35 pence per bar per night. Both of these are on display. 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.

Bank of england virtual tour the value of gold bar at the start of august 2016 was around 411770. We only own two gold bars. The vaults under the bank of england on threadneedle street are said to hold 5134 tonnes of gold. The bank of england gold vaults are located on 2 underground levels beneath the banks headquarters in the city of london.

Who owns the gold at the bank of england. Britains queen elizabeth tours a gold vault during a visit to the bank of england in the city of london december 13 2012.