This is the oldest insurance organization in the world and the most famous insurance & reinsurance market in the world and it is a very international organization where a lot of international insurers & re-insurers are operating and working in Lloyds. I used to come for business many times but today was the first time to have the opportunity to picture it inside.
Andrew Evans
This is an iconic building and great to visit. It is a private office so you can only view the outside. It is a good idea to visit on a weekend, as there will be fewer people in the City. Also the views at night are great as it is illuminated with different colours.
Siu Tung Cheung
Very interesting to visit. Through the tour, you understand the history of Lloyd, how it transform from a coffee shop to insurance market place which still running and growing fast. Problem is this tour is not open to the public. You need to be nominated by someone who is working inside in order to join the tour with very strict security check. Formal dressing is a must also.
Anthony Bachtiar
Lloyd's of London is the oldest insurance company in the world. This Lloyd's building (sometimes known as the Inside-Out Building) is the home of the insurance institution Lloyd's of London. It is located on the former site of East India House in Lime Street, in London's main financial district, the City of London.
Our small group received an honorary invitation to attend their office and see how they works in underwriters room and also learn its history. In my opinion, this is a modern office and a museum about the history of insurance in the world. Things I would share here (because this is off-limit to the public to enter the building) are about my visit and what we saw there, in short, they were: 1. An insurance letter against Titanic ships and several companies that participated in re-insured. Wow, how I amazed to see the movie of Titanic, but this one is proof of history about Titanic.
2. In the middle of the room, we saw a bell hanging there, according to the staff who accompanied us the name of the Bell is La Lutine taken from the French naval frigate La Lutine captured by the British at Toulon in 1793. The ship was consequently renamed HMS Lutine as a battleship for 6 years and become a transport ship and on the last journey of this ship brought a vast sum of gold and silver insured at Lloyd's and bound for Hamburg and the entirety of the ship's cargo was lost. So this bell is a symbol of the history of the huge blow for Lloyd's financially, but it also cemented the company's reputation for settling even the most incredible losses.
3. A display cabinet dedicated to Admiral Lord Nelson. As underwriters of marine insurance, Lloyd's was heavily indebted to the protection and safety the Royal Navy and Nelson provided for ships to cross the oceans,
4. At the end of our visit, we were taken to a large dining room called the Adam Room where all the ornaments and contents were truly ancient and original inside a modern building. The room is used by the Council of Lloyd's is an adaptation of the original dining room of Bowood House in Wiltshire. Designed in 1763 This dining room is moved part by part into a wholly original one to the new Lloyd's premises in Lime Street.
That was really a great experience to visit the Lloyd of London office.
Pauline Byrne Kennedy1 year ago
Went to the annual Lloyd's of London Art exhibition. It's a wonderful event for charity especially homeless charities. Was started abt 60 years ago by a marvellous man, Don Coombe, a co-founder. I'm interested because my darling niece Olivia English is an artist who exhibits there, because her lovely husband has a connection with Lloyd's. She took up painting as part of her rehabilitation following a bleed on her brain. She too donates much of the proceeds from the sale of her work to charity especially Headspace Essex which helped her following her illness. I'm truly inspired by her, Don and all those people I come across who 'give' selflessly. Think on that when you see all the bad being reported in the world, you don't see all the good being done because it doesn't sell papers nor media advertising. THINK ON THAT please.
Army Matters1 year ago
Awesome place in November when their Remembrance service takes place.
C G1 year ago
Horrible company. The worst insurance company I have ever dealt with. I am a hurricane victim and they are nickel and diming, “forgetting” about payments they owe, and generally taking advantage. Awful and slow communication. Avoid at all cost.
Chris Gloag2 years ago
This building is an interesting idea.. getting old now and everything is being built around it extremely high so you cant see it from afar in the same way. Inside the glass lifts are very fun! The guts on the outside do block some of the views from the inside. Sometimes it is difficult to navigate inside and its extremely busy on the trading floor in normal times.
Its normally full of people insuring and reinsuring themselves and their clients over and over again until it all ends up in Bermuda where the pot of gold is at the end of the rainbow.
This Lloyd's building (sometimes known as the Inside-Out Building) is the home of the insurance institution Lloyd's of London. It is located on the former site of East India House in Lime Street, in London's main financial district, the City of London.
Our small group received an honorary invitation to attend their office and see how they works in underwriters room and also learn its history. In my opinion, this is a modern office and a museum about the history of insurance in the world.
Things I would share here (because this is off-limit to the public to enter the building) are about my visit and what we saw there, in short, they were:
1. An insurance letter against Titanic ships and several companies that participated in re-insured. Wow, how I amazed to see the movie of Titanic, but this one is proof of history about Titanic.
2. In the middle of the room, we saw a bell hanging there, according to the staff who accompanied us the name of the Bell is La Lutine taken from the French naval frigate La Lutine captured by the British at Toulon in 1793. The ship was consequently renamed HMS Lutine as a battleship for 6 years and become a transport ship and on the last journey of this ship brought a vast sum of gold and silver insured at Lloyd's and bound for Hamburg and the entirety of the ship's cargo was lost.
So this bell is a symbol of the history of the huge blow for Lloyd's financially, but it also cemented the company's reputation for settling even the most incredible losses.
3. A display cabinet dedicated to Admiral Lord Nelson. As underwriters of marine insurance, Lloyd's was heavily indebted to the protection and safety the Royal Navy and Nelson provided for ships to cross the oceans,
4. At the end of our visit, we were taken to a large dining room called the Adam Room where all the ornaments and contents were truly ancient and original inside a modern building.
The room is used by the Council of Lloyd's is an adaptation of the original dining room of Bowood House in Wiltshire. Designed in 1763
This dining room is moved part by part into a wholly original one to the new Lloyd's premises in Lime Street.
That was really a great experience to visit the Lloyd of London office.
Its normally full of people insuring and reinsuring themselves and their clients over and over again until it all ends up in Bermuda where the pot of gold is at the end of the rainbow.