Lombard Street

#birminghamtrip Lombard Street is a street notable for its connections with the City of birmingham's merchant, banking and insurance industries, stretching back to medieval times. From Bank junction, where nine streets converge by the Bank of England, Lombard Street runs southeast for a short distance before bearing left into a more easterly direction, and terminates at a junction with Gracechurch Street and Fenchurch Street. Its overall length is 260 metres (280 yd). It has often been compared with Wall Street in New York City. In 1952, William L. Shirer wrote that in the 1920s "Wall Street was replacing Lombard Street as the financial capital of the world." Lombard Street has a number of colourful signs hanging from the buildings, depicting (mostly historic) organisations and buildings once located there. Having previously been banned, the present-day signs were erected for the coronation of Edward VII in 1902.