Rare look inside Bank of England's gold vaults - BBC News

I think your stats said if you were going to do an Italian job on this place you need 4,000 no that's right yeah it's incredible to

look

at but it doesn't do anything why is it so valuable partly because it's

rare

so it's in limited supply you can't keep making it the

gold

here is a store of value it is globally recognized people want

gold

so it creates a market in itself it doesn't change value as much for example as currencies this is a lot more durable than

investing in chocolate or something like that with the disprove worth roughly four hundred and seventy-five thousand pounds at today's market price well that'll solve a mortgage so most bars are in this what we think of as a trapezoid for it makes it easier to handle but this bar here from the United States is in the form of brick the Federal Reserve

Bank

of New York it is built on bedrock so the goal can be stacked one on top of another here at the

Bank

of

England

because it's

built on clay we have floor loading limits which is why we have the

gold

ens in pallet all of the

gold

that was held in London was sent to with the

Bank

of Canada in Ottawa the area was used as an air-raid shelter and it had canteen at a billiards table had beds in you