Built in 1890 by Robert Walker in Portland stone and listed by English Heritage as a site of special historical and architectural interest, the property boasts a penthouse suite with aerial views of the capital, dozens of rooms, spaces for entertaining, and a secure vault in the basement.
Lincoln, too, will play a key part in the celebrations – the £22m Lincoln Castle Revealed project opens in April, with a new vault to display its own copy of the Magna Carta.
One box holder said a security guard had told him that the thieves "didn't break in through the vault door, but got in through the wall next to the vault door".
Only last week, the Canadian company snapped up the operations and intellectual property of Goldmoney.com, agreeing to pay approximately $49m not only for the latter's gold vault storage business, but also for its toehold operating in the United States.
Davies left the UK for the US in the mid-80s and decided to put all his work for the NME and The Face magazine into a vault, leave it for decades and see if it had any cultural relevance when he returned to it.
In the women's pole vault Yelena Isinbayeva suffered her first defeat at a major event in six years as Anna Rogowska of Poland won by default, taking fewer attempts to clear 4.68m.
Exact details of how the gang members accessed the vault have not been revealed.
Bryant came unstuck in the high jump yesterday and was well out of medal contention but nevertheless posted a outdoor personal best in the pole vault and a season's best in the javelin as he finished 15th overall.
Women's pole vault final, 7pm Britain's best gymnast, Beth Tweddle ▲, is in the final of the uneven bars, and there will be familiar names in the velodrome as Team GB go for gold in the men's and women's sprint.
It is thought that they then forced open shutter doors and used a drill to bore a hole 50cm deep, 25cm high and 45cm wide into the vault wall.
Police have offered a £20,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of all those involved in the raid and have released images of the Hilti DD350 drill that was used to bore a hole into the vault wall.
