Tacked on to the end of the Bank of England, this museum is housed in a replica Sir John Soane interior, the largest of its kind in the world. Read more.
The ‘demon barber of Fleet Street’ plied his evil trade here, in a play written in the 1840s. It may have been based on a real murder in the area from 1785 in which a man had his throat cut by a barbe
The famous illuminated advertising of Piccadilly Circus began as early as 1893, before most of the city had electric street lighting.
