Mick's Monopoly challenge

       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...

       There are around 300 shops in Oxford Street, and not much else. It stretches for 1 ¼ miles between Tottenham Court Road and Marble Arch and is the world’s biggest high street. But, apart from Selfridges, I’m not going to talk shop; so what follows will be relatively brief. Well maybe, I did write this paragraph first.     We start at the Tottenham Court Road end and head west …. after a short easterly rain check along New Oxford Street …. James Smith and Sons, 53 New Oxford Street 105-109 Oxford Street …. ‘Nice beaver’     Nice Beaver (©Naked Gun) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wS3LWOTCW4A    See also, a personal favourite …. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKnX5wci404 Dancer with Ribbon, 128 Oxford Street UPDATE (Jan 2023): The statue has gone, I know not where. The Plaza is now a huge Primark just in case you missed the other huge Primark at the other end of Oxford Street. Oxford Circus       When...