The Bank of Thread Needle Street

The bank has a wonderful architectural history really interesting architectural history. It spends the first 40 odd years of its life in borrowed premises and then it moved to the Thread Needle Street site in 1734. Its most famous architect is probably John Sohn there's not much left of John Sohn's bank other than the sort of curtain wall that surrounds the bank. The courtroom is still the 18th century courtroom that was designed by Sohn as well the bank that we see today which is 10 stories high so there's the bit that you see above ground bit quite a bit below ground as wellthat was designed by Herbert Baker in the mid 20th century.