Bank of Ingland

Type
Locations: Bank.

Description
The Bank of England is the central bank of the United Kingdom and the model on which most modern central banks have been based. Established in 1694 to act as the English Government's banker, and still one of the bankers for the Government of the United Kingdom, it is the world's eighth-oldest bank, privately owned by stockholders from its foundation in 1694 until being nationalised in 1946. As of April 2016 the bank held around 400,000 bars, which is equivalent to 5,134 tonnes (5,659 tons) of gold. These gold deposits were estimated in August 2018 to have a market value of approximately £200 billion and suggest that the vault could hold as much as 3% of the gold mined throughout human history.

Location
City of Londinium

Pre-War History
The Bank operated as per expected until the bombs fell in 2077, when as a reactionary method of survival the employees of the Bank of England sealed themselves inside the Bank Vaults.

Post-War History
After 2077 the bank occupants managed to survive off of the food found in the safety deposit boxes for a time until the new residents eventually succumbed to ghoulification. Whilst this process meant that their food situations were no longer an issue, residents became locked inside the Vault with no way of leaving and over time turned feral. These members became known as Vault Citizens.

Many years passed by with little excitement within the Bank of England until several Scavenger groups decided to take control of it in the hopes they could break in to obtain the treasures within. This ultimately failed however as they were unable to break into the vault. Nevertheless the facility became a new home for them as well, leading them to become known as Bank Dwellers — two vastly different groups of people living side by side in one building.

Eventually the Tommies locate and liberate the vault of the Bank for the Gentry Elite in the year 2220. Rather than eradicate the Bank Dwellers discovered inside the Tommies brokered a deal where the they were permitted to continue their residence providing they act as employees to the new trading centre that the Bank of England was to become.

During this process the vault door was opened for the very first time and after almost 200 years since their last social interactions with the world at large contact was made with the Ghoulified Vault Citizens. The same brokered deal was offered with the exception that due to how they were accustomed to life within the bank vault, they could convert one into a proper settlement — this became known as Millionaires Row and catered to both ghouls and humans alike.