London Silver Vaults

The London Silver Vaults is a large subterranean marketplace that opened as The Chancery Lane Safe Deposit on 7 May 1885.

Originally renting out strong rooms to hold household silver, jewellery and documents, it transitioned to housing silver dealers in secure premises a few years later.

[2] With 1.2-metre (3.9 ft) thick walls lined with steel, the vaults were never broken into.

A new building, Chancery House, was constructed ten years later,[3] and since 1953 it has been in its present format,[1] with shops based underground.

It is said that it has "the largest single collection of silver for sale in the world",[2] contained within more than forty shops.