FENCHURCH STREET STATION
Given there’s not much else to say about Fenchurch Street Station, in typical scattergun fashion, I’ve covered an area between there and The Bank of England. It’s the oldest part of London, although not much predates 1666, the year of The Great Fire. The Bank of England, Threadneedle Street (2) There’s over £200 billion pounds worth of gold bars inside, enough to cover the entire United Kingdom in gold leaf six times over. One ounce of gold can be stretched into a thin wire measuring only five microns, 80 km long. No-one has ever attempted to steal gold from the Bank of England. However, in 1836, the directors received an anonymous letter. The writer claimed to have access to the vault and offered to meet them there at time of their choosing. So the directors gathered in the vault one night to be greeted by a sewerman who popped up through the floor...