BANK OF ENGLAND
GIGANTIC NEW BUILDING. 'United Press Association—By Electric Te le graph. - -Copy ri g 111.) (Received this day at 11.15 a.m.) ■ LONDON, February 28. “Safe as the Bank of England,” will be doubly proved when the secrets of the gigantic new building in Threadneedle Street are revealed to the public gaze. The Bank’s new vaults, which are capable of holding a thousand million sterling in gold, are sixty feet deep, and will also house the treasures of some of Britain’s wealthiest families.
Other features .Ire s.p actions .halls with mosaic floorings and rare fiveton marble pillars. The smallest flaws iln the architecture are immediately corrected, often at a cost of hundreds sterling.
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Hokitika Guardian, 29 February 1932, Page 6
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