Bank of England, London

In 1694, a beautiful building appeared in London, on Trednield Street, in which a mechanism was supposed to be set in motion to successfully collect money. It was the Bank of England, whose building was designed by the Scotsman William Patterson, and whose first manager was Sir John Houblen.
Only a few years later, in 1708, the Bank of England began to enjoy its monopoly on the printing of banknotes. In 1780, Gordon's rebels stormed the bank, but thanks to the prompt responses of the militia and volunteers, the attack was thwarted. From that moment until 1973, a military guard was stationed in the Bank of England building. This is how the expression "safe as an English bank" was born. A large-scale reconstruction program of the Bank of England building began in 1788, with Sir John Soane as the lead architect. Thus, the building acquires a beautiful neoclassical look and, for security reasons, remains without windows. Between the wars the staff grew and this necessitated a further expansion of the Bank of England, this time headed by Sir Herbert Baker.
Towards the end of the 19th century, the Bank of England abolished the accounts of private customers and the institution became a government bank.
In order to be able to trace the history of the Bank of England, in 1988 in one of the halls of the Soane, by the will of the Queen, a museum was created especially for the purpose.