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This timeline of Sheffield history summarises key events in the history of Sheffield, a city in England. The origins of the city can be traced back to the founding of a settlement in a clearing beside the River Sheaf in the second half of the 1st millennium AD. The area had seen human occupation since at least the last ice age, but significant growth in the settlements that are now ...
Sheffield, Corn Exchange, Broad Street. Built for the Duke of Norfolk at a cost of £55,000 in 1881. The architect was probably Matthew Ellison Hadfield and the building was decorated with carvings by Frank Tory. The central hall of the corn exchange was gutted by fire in 1947 and the offices surrounding it were demolished in 1964. [156]
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of ... Corn Exchange opens. ... and Directory of the County of Derby, Sheffield: Francis White & Co., 1857; ...
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.
The following is a timeline of the history of the city ... The Corn Exchange in Thurland ... and the town and county of the town of Nottingham, Sheffield ...
The use of the building as a corn exchange declined significantly in the wake of the Great Depression of British Agriculture in the late 19th century. [11] The property was occupied by Capital and Counties Bank in 1907, [3] and then by Lloyds Bank, after Capital and Counties Bank was acquired by Lloyds Bank in 1918. [12]
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of York, ... 1868 – 31 October: New Corn Exchange opens for business. ... Bradford, Hull, Sheffield ...
In the mid-1840s, a group of local businessmen decided to form a private company, known as the "Saffron Walden Corn Exchange Company", to finance and commission a corn exchange for the town. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The site they selected was occupied by a guildhall which had been used by the local wool-staplers .