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Edinburgh Corn Exchange – 3,000 for concerts [4] Usher Hall , Edinburgh – 2,200 seated, 2,900 with standing, 1,970 cabaret [ 5 ] Ross Bandstand, Princess Street Gardens - 2,500 seated [ 6 ]
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 resulting trial attracted the world's press and resulted in crowds of sightseers making visits to the building, interfering with the corn trading. [2] [6] 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. [7]
It was acquired by a newly formed charity, the Corn Exchange Theatre Company, in 2001 and was extensively refurbished at a cost of £1 million between 2003 and 2008 to create a modern auditorium with raked seating. [8] The facade was restored to its original design in 2015. [9]
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]
By the mid-19th century, this arrangement was deemed inadequate, and civic leaders decided to commission a dedicated corn exchange on a site to the east of the Sheriff Courthouse. [ 3 ] The building was designed by Francis Farquharson in the neoclassical style , built in ashlar stone and was completed in 1854. [ 4 ]
The first corn exchange in Bedford, later referred to as the "Floral Hall", was located in the north-east corner of St Paul's Square and was opened on 1 May 1850. [3] By the early 1870s, it was considered too small, and civic officials decided to commission a larger building. [1] The company that had commissioned the first corn exchange was ...
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.