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In January 2020, Exeter City Council confirmed that it was considering making further improvements to the Corn Exchange as an alternative to a commissioning a completely new venue for major public events in the city. [9] [10] [11] One of the episodes of the BBC New Comedy Award was held at the venue in 2022. [12] [13]
The site they selected, on the northeast side of Abbey Road, was leased to the proprietors of an old post office. The lord of the manor, William Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Exeter, whose seat was at Burghley House, agreed to make the freehold interest in the site available to the directors of the new company on favourable terms. [1]
Corn Exchange, Exeter - 500 (standing), 300 (seated) The Fox and Firkin, London - 499; STYX, North London - 499; Ruskin Arms, London (circa 1960s–2008) - 499; New Theatre Royal Lincoln, Lincoln - 475; Buskers, Dundee - 450; The Stables, Milton Keynes - 398 seated and 50 standing (Jim Marshall Auditorium) 80 seated or 100 standing (Stage 2)
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.
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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.
Exeter Hall was a large public meeting place on the north side of the Strand in central London, opposite where the Savoy Hotel now stands. From 1831 until 1907 Exeter Hall was the venue for many great gatherings of activists for various causes, most notably the anti-slavery movement and the meeting of the Anti–Corn Law League in 1846. [1]
Exeter (/ ˈ ɛ k s ɪ t ər / ⓘ EK-sit-ər) is a cathedral city and the county town of Devon, South West England.It is situated on the River Exe, approximately 36 mi (58 km) northeast of Plymouth and 65 mi (105 km) southwest of Bristol.