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Take the lift up the Lloyds Building to survey the City of London's financial district

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Scenes of the financial district of the City of London, beginning with a street-level look at the Royal Exchange and ending with a view from a glass elevator of the Lloyds Building.
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Transcript

NARRATOR: It is 8:30 in the morning in the City of London, the start of another business day.

London was once the undisputed capital of the banking world.

Today it is still one of the world's important financial centers. Thousands of its citizens rely directly or indirectly on banks and international finance companies for employment.
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