UK - London - City financial instututions architecture

City banks and other financial institutions along Lombard Street, London. In the distance is a team of window cleaners attending to the new Walkie Talkie building, whose plate glass surfaces require attention high above London's streets. The steeple to the left is the Anglican St Edmund, King and Martyr. Lombard Street, originally a piece of land granted by King Edward I to goldsmiths from the part of northern Italy known as Lombardy (larger than the modern region of Lombardy). It is a narrow and usually dark sidestreet near the Bank of England in the heart of what is called the Square Mile - the inner-part and oldest quarter of London occupied first by the Romans 2,000 years ago. Nowadays the City of London is home to banks and financial institutions but also with a resident population of under 10,000 but a daily working population of 311,000.

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City banks and other financial institutions along Lombard Street, London. In the distance is a team of window cleaners attending to the new Walkie Talkie building, whose plate glass surfaces require attention high above London's streets. The steeple to the left is the Anglican St Edmund, King and Martyr. Lombard Street, originally a piece of land granted by King Edward I to goldsmiths from the part of northern Italy known as Lombardy (larger than the modern region of Lombardy). It is a narrow and usually dark sidestreet near the Bank of England in the heart of what is called the Square Mile - the inner-part and oldest quarter of London occupied first by the Romans 2,000 years ago. Nowadays the City of London is home to banks and financial institutions but also with a resident population of under 10,000 but a daily working population of 311,000.