Discover the streets nearby Bank tube station (2024)

How to get to Bank?

Bank Station opened in 1900 and is named after the Bank of England, which is located along Threadneedle Street. Nearby one of the many entrances that serve the tube station.

Deep in the heart of the financial ‘City of London’, Bank tube station is a hive of activity and a central hub for your busy city worker. Although, if you visit here at the weekends, the station and the streets are deserted.

Hidden underground there is a maze of walkways, a network of tunnels, escalators, lifts and deep twisting stairwells to lose yourself in. Though don’t be put off, it’s all part of the fun.

Stretching high above you, there is a wealth of incredible and fascinating architecture, which sits all-around Bank Junction.

Bank Junction is bustling over-ground just as much as it is under, as nine streets converge onto this one intersection.

They are Threadneedle Street, Cornhill, Lombard Street, Mansion House Place, Walbrook, Queen Victoria Street, Poultry, Mansion House Street and Prince's Street.

This district of London suffered devastatingly during the Great Fire of London in 1666. Pudding Lane, where the fire is believed to have started, is just by Monument station. The Monument that stands outside the station commemorates this event.

During the Blitz from September 1940 to May 1941 Bank was again severely hit. A bomb landed and created a huge crater in the middle of Bank Junction, just missing the Royal Exchange, Mansion House and the Bank of England.

Today Bank Station is undergoing a refurbishment project which should be completed in 2022. In my opinion, it certainly isn’t a moment too soon.

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The first prominent building to point out is the Bank of England, otherwise known as ‘The Old Lady of Threadneedle Street’.

The Bank of England was established in 1694 and is one of the oldest banks in the world. She has been located on Threadneedle Street since 1734.

The role is now only held for a year, and the new Lord Mayor is sworn in every November. A pageant is led by the Lord Mayor from Mansion House to the Royal Courts of Justice in the City of Westminster, where allegiance is sworn to the Queen. This annual event is known as the “Lord Mayors Show”.

Mansion House was built in the mid-18th-century, the elegant banqueting halls inside are still used today for official City of London functions.

I do love the fusion of the contemporary architecture standing toe-to-toe with the old weather-worn ancient buildings within London. Watching the reflections of the old structures rippling across the glass of the new.

So many skyscrapers are now springing up across London’s skyline, you can easily lose track of the weird and wonderful names that they have been given.

The most prominent is The Shard; however, close by Bank Station is the NatWest Tower, now known as Tower 42. This was to be the first of many skyscrapers taking to the London skies in 1980.

Also nearby is The Cheesegrater built in 2014, The Gherkin completed in 2003, the Walkie Talkie from 2014 and a more recent addition in 2018 is The Scalpel.

The history of Leadenhall dates a lot further back than the Victorians. It was early in the 1400s that the building was acquired by Dick Whittington and soon became a thriving market. A mixture of food produce was sold including meat, poultry, game and fish.

Over the centuries it evolved, and fruit, vegetables and dairy produce were also available. Today you will find a couple of food shops; however, now you’ll stumble across boutiques, restaurants and a rather pleasant pub.

It stands 202 feet high (62 metres), and if it were laid down, it would rest at the exact spot in Pudding Lane where the Great Fire started on 2nd September 1666.

There has been further debate as to whether the fire started in the bakery owned by the King’s baker Thomas Farriner, but who am I to question.

Part of the way along Bow Lane it is crossed by Watling Street.

Watling Street is part of the ancient Roman road that runs from the coastal port of Dover in Kent and through the historic city of Canterbury. It then weaves its way through London onto St Albans and continues until Wroxeter in Shropshire, some 276 miles (444km) later.

Stocks Market

Police box

These were once seen everywhere and were used by the police and public to call for assistance.

The “call posts” in the City are pale blue and cast-iron rectangular boxes. Small than others as the street around the city are narrow.

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