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Greek Revival style: Shown in Central London. The Corn Exchange was a commercial building in Mark Lane, London, England. The original structure dated from 1747, but ...
Albert Street. (1862). The corn exchange building is on the corner of Albert Street and Exchange Street. Although the Corn Exchange Company was wound up in 1881, the building was still used as a corn exchange and, from 1897, was also the Palace Theatre of Varieties. After the First World War, the building was converted into a dance hall.
The Exchange in Bristol Corn Exchange, London circa 1809. A corn exchange is a building where merchants trade grains. The word "corn" in British English denotes all cereal grains, such as wheat and barley; in the United States these buildings were called grain exchanges.
After the corn exchange ceased trading in 1959, [11] the building was acquired by Hertfordshire County Council. However, it soon became dilapidated and, in 1967, the council recommended its demolition. The proposal was strongly opposed by the Bishop's Stortford Civic Society and the Bishop's Stortford History Society.
The company which had originally commissioned the corn exchange was wound up in 1948 [10] and, that same year, Granada cinemas took over the Corn Exchange, and named it the Granada Exchange. [1] [11] The Granada cinema closed in 1980. Star Wars film The Empire Strikes Back was the last film shown at the Granada cinema. [9] The Corn Exchange was ...
A group of local businessmen then decided to form a company, to be known as the "Tunbridge Wells Corn Exchange Company", to operate the building as a corn exchange: a large panel, inscribed with the words "Corn Exchange", flanked by carvings of wheat sheaves, and surmounted by a statue of the goddess, Ceres, was installed on the roof. [1]
In 1888, Mr Richardson, the Corn Exchange keeper, said the corn market was held every Saturday afternoon. With 16 stall-holders paying £22 (equivalent to £3,095.48 in 2023) per annum each, the number having declined due to the depression in trade. The Corn Exchange building was also let for public meetings. [10]
The first location where merchants could trade in agricultural products in Edinburgh was on the High Street.Cattle, horse, and grain markets moved to the Grassmarket in the 15th century, and it was at the corn exchange in the Grassmarket, which was designed by David Cousin and completed in the mid-19th century, [2] that the Prime Minister, William Ewart Gladstone, made a speech in 1884. [3]