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80 Broad Street, 1931, Sloan & Robertson. The Maritime Exchange was a clearinghouse for shipping news, hence the seahorses above the entrance and the mural by Lillian Gaertner Palmedo showing ships through the ages.
The Royal Exchange in London was founded in the 16th century by the merchant Sir Thomas Gresham on the suggestion of his factor Richard Clough to act as a centre of commerce for the City of London. The site was provided by the City of London Corporation and the Worshipful Company of Mercers, who still jointly own the freehold. It is trapezoidal in shape and is flanked by Cornhill and Threadneedle Street, which converge at Bank junction in the heart of the City. It lies in the ward of Cornhill. The building's original design was inspired by a bourse Gresham had seen in Antwerp, the Antwerp bourse, and was Britain's first specialist commercial building.
It has twice been destroyed by fire and subsequently rebuilt. The present building was designed by Sir William Tite in the 1840s. The site was notably occupied by the Lloyd's insurance market for nearly 150 years. Today the Royal Exchange contains a Courtyard Grand Cafe, Threadneedle Cocktail Bar, Sauterelle Restaurant, luxury shops, and offices.
Traditionally, the steps of the Royal Exchange is the place where certain royal proclamations (such as the dissolution of parliament) are read out by either a herald or a crier. Following the death or abdication of a monarch and the confirmation of the next monarch's accession to the throne by the Accession Council, the Royal Exchange Building is one of the locations where a herald proclaims the new monarch's reign to the public.
Source: wikipedia.org
Manchester's Corn & Produce Exchange was a magnificent building built by Ball & Elce in 1889-90 and Potts Son & Pickup 1904-14.
Following the Manchester bombing on 15th June 1996 the dome was severely damaged and the building (no longer used as a trading floor) was redeveloped,
The major reconstruction (now called "The Triangle at the Corn Exchange") was carried out by the Radcliffe Partnership and Mountain Design of Glasgow.
It's a stunning building - and as the sun came out I couldn't resist taking these photographs before I was thrown out by the management.
I did something completely different from what ive been doing lately with this exchange. Hope you like it bro
The then longest platform in the world - Platform 11 linking the ex-L&YR/LNWR joint Manchester (Victoria) station (in the distance) and the ex-LNWR Manchester (Exchange) station (behind the photographer), 07/78. Scanned photograph taken with a Kowa SET.
This is how it was done in the good old days: The tokens were exchanged by the footplate crew and the signalman. It is on the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway at the passing loop midway between Damems and Oakworth stations.
According to the BBC's Wales Today programme, the 17 February 2024 was to be the first revenue earning service for the new Class 197s on the Maesteg branch, I learned later that day of a couple of fill-in turns earlier, but hey-ho, another box ticked!
On that day TfW's 197018 stops to exchange the tablets with the 'bobby' at Tondu signal box whilst working 2G54, the 11.13 Maesteg to Cheltenham Spa. The place is just a shadow of how it was during its earlier lifetime moving coal down the several valleys in the area to feed the steel works and power stations, I suppose at least it is still open and in use.
"I'll throw in the black keys for free"
Ray's Music Exchange in Calumet City, Illinois has the best electric piano in the city of Chicago. It can be yours for the low price of $2000 bucks and you could take it home with you and Ray will throw in the black keys for free.
The Blues Brothers has stood the test of time as it is one of the most entertaining movies filled with great music including the late great Ray Charles.
Ray's includes a fully stocked showroom with guitars, amps, mics, tv's, and toasters. Don't mind the bullet holes next to the guitar hanging on the wall - it breaks everyone's hearts when a boy that young goes bad. Although some say the best piano in the city of Chicago has no action left in the keyboard; Ray disagreed and the patrons break out into a spirited rendition of the classic Shake A Tail Feather.
When I set out to build Ray's Music Exchange it had to have the mural of the great blue's legends but with a LEGO flair. One artist that I knew possessed the skills and quality required is the incredibly talented Greg Hyland ( www.lethargiclad.com/). I knew Greg from attending Brickworld in Chicago over the years and when I emailed him with my vision - he was instantly on board and he didn't disappoint. The mural was spot on and was everything that I had hoped.
The next step was printing Greg's art onto the brick. I didn't want to use a sticker or decal - it needed to be printed so the colors would shine. I had long been a fan of Terry Akuna's printing on LEGO and he was also excited for the project and took extra time to get it perfect printed onto the bricks. (www.bricklink.com/store/home.page?p=terryakuna#/shop?o={"showHomeItems":1})
The build was powered up with lights from www.lifelites.com
Finally my 14 year old daughter had become a pro at cutting vinyl and was able to reproduce Ray's signs with her expert font and lettering skills. She has been able to reproduce my LUG's logo for car window decals, coffee cups, shirts, and new lettering on my steam engines. macismonograms.blogspot.com/
If you are unfamiliar with The Blues Brothers - stop reading this and go watch Jake and Elwood try and get the band back together!
Now on LEGO Ideas! ideas.lego.com/projects/167206
Manchester Exchange was the London and North Western Railway's terminus for its North Wales,Liverpool and transpennine services via Stalybridge and Diggle. The Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway was headquartered at Victoria.
Extended a few times over the years and with a big car park at the end. The offices at the front are now used by the adjacent doctors surgery.
The glass-fronted facade of the Exchange Square building in Central Hong Kong is but one-of-many architectural icons on Hong Kong Island. The building was completed in 1988 at a cost of US$256 and houses the Hong Kong Stock exchange along with other key tenants.
I remember seeing the outside of this building the best part of 20 years ago and thinking "I wonder what it's like inside?" Well there's one thing for sure. It was nothing like this!
Taken by Canon 1D Mark IV and Canon 500mm F4 handheld.
According to a birder I talked to that day, this behavior is like a guy sending "flower" to a girl to try to get her heart and ask for permission to mate!
I didn't realize until now that both of them have their eye lids closed at the very moment of exchange. Probably enjoying it very much.
Nottingham, Exchange Arcade. The Council House and Exchange Arcade replaced an earlier Exchange on the same site. It was designed by Thomas Cecil Howitt in the Neo-Baroque style, built between 1927 & 1929, and is grade 2* listed. Each shop has its own basement showroom or storage facilities, deliveries being made via an underground roadway, served by a vehicular lift on Cheapside. The Murals in the dome were painted by Noel Denholm Davis. and depict:-
The Danes capturing Nottingham in 868:
William the Conqueror ordering the building of the castle in 1068;
Robin Hood and his Merry Men;
King Charles I raising his standard at the start of the Civil War in 1642.
City of Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, East Midlands, England - Exchange Arcade, Cheapside, Long Row & Clumber Street
January 2022
The Postcard
A postally unused postcard bearing no publisher's name. The card, which has a divided back, was printed in England.
The Liverpool Cotton Exchange Buildings
The original exchange was an elegant building built by James Wyatt between 1803 and 1809. It was in perfect sympathy with the Town Hall (for which he was partly responsible).
Tastes changed and, in the 1860's, the building was replaced by one in the more flamboyant (and less sympathetic) Gothic style (shown in the photograph).
The Nelson Monument in the centre of the photograph is a monument to Admiral Horatio Nelson. It was designed by Matthew Cotes Wyatt and sculpted by Richard Westmacott. It stands to the north of the Town Hall, and was unveiled in 1813.
A new building in Old Hall Street was later erected in 1905-06 to a design by Matear and Simon. Its façade was in Neoclassical style, with Baroque towers at the angles. Its exterior decoration included statues.
Inside the building was the latest technology for communicating with cotton traders elsewhere in the world, including telephones, and cables linking directly with New York, Bremen and Bombay.
The front of the Old Hall Street Cotton Exchange was replaced with a modern-style façade designed by Newton-Dawson, Forbes and Tate in 1967–69, and the former main exchange hall was replaced by a courtyard. In addition to offices, the building also incorporates retail facilities.
The Liverpool Cotton Market
In the infancy of the cotton trade, when the arrivals into Liverpool were small and intermittent, the cotton imported was for the most part sold to dealers, who retailed it to spinners in Manchester, Blackburn, Bolton, and other centres.
Sometimes it was sold direct to the dealers by private treaty; at other times by auction, either by the importers themselves or by brokers in their employ.
The first known reference to raw cotton shipped to Liverpool from the West Indies appeared in a letter written in 1703 by Liverpool merchant Robert Norris. The expansion of the British cotton industry in the second half of the eighteenth century created a demand for cotton fibre.
As the cotton industry grew, increasing quantities of cotton entered Liverpool rather than London. By 1800, as cotton cultivation continued to spread in the Atlantic basin, Liverpool developed a sophisticated cotton market.
A Lancashire dealer wanting to purchase cotton on the Liverpool market could, by the early nineteenth century, choose from thousands of bales entering Liverpool‘s docks each week, and from at least fifteen varieties of cotton, ranging in quality and price.
In 1831 the Bank of Liverpool was founded and had a major impact on the cotton trade in the city. It became the most important bank to the cotton market. Merchants would put cotton in the hands of a broker and draw up a bill the broker would then take to the bank for a loan and then present the money to the merchant. The cotton held by the broker provided the security on the loan.
By the end of the decade, the Bank of Liverpool was making advances on such cotton of up to 80% of its market value. This meant that merchants were able to hold on to their cotton for longer or until they could get the best price by a spinner, who, like the merchants, would also be working with a broker.
Increasingly, a group of specialised brokers with expertise and knowledge in the raw cotton trade acted as middlemen on the Liverpool cotton market, connecting buyers and sellers in speedy transactions.
In 1808, an Exchange Building opened, but while cotton brokers took offices there, they preferred to conduct their business in the open square. By 1815, Liverpool was the undisputed British port for cotton imports and its merchants played the principal role in securing cotton to supply Lancashire cotton factories.
The cotton market continued to meet out of doors until the 1880's. The Flags were a place to meet and swap information about the cotton market.
However new technology like the telegraph and telephone played a major part in moving the cotton men indoors into the building in the photograph.
Later improvements in transport and communication helped the Liverpool cotton trade to improve and expand. The development of the railway, and in particular the opening of the Liverpool to Manchester line in 1830, improved reliability in transporting cotton to the Lancashire towns.
In 1841 The Liverpool Cotton Brokers' Association was established, and the Transatlantic Telegraph Cable system reduced long distance communication from weeks to minutes.
In 1911-12 Liverpool imported 5,230,399 bales of cotton.
The Liverpool Cotton Market in WWI and WWII
The cotton market was affected by both world wars. In 1914 at the outbreak of the Great War the markets in Liverpool and New York were closed, and although they later re-opened, much of the demand for cotton was by then being met by Japan and India.
During WWII large numbers of men working in the cotton trade were called up. The decimation of the American crop of 1921 by the Boll Weevil and the Wall Street Crash of 1929 which led to the Great Depression had a severe effect on the Liverpool Cotton Market. By 1931, Liverpool’s cotton imports were at their lowest for 62 years.
The Cotton Market Today
After WWII, the Lancashire cotton industry went into decline. This was partly based on a lack of investment in new technology, and partly due to production moving to countries where labour was cheaper. Cotton processing increasingly took place close to where the crop was grown.
Developing countries now account for over 80% of global cotton consumption. This is because labour costs in the developed countries have risen, so cotton processing and production has moved to countries with lower labour costs.
Today, there are still about 4,000 companies involved in the textile industry in the North West. However, the raw cotton is no longer spun into yarn in the UK. Yarn and finished fabric is manufactured closer to where the cotton is grown, in India, Pakistan and increasingly China. Textiles tend to be designed in the UK and then made overseas.
i want to do a print exchange since i just redid my room and i want to add a photo wall! :)
if you're interested, leave a comment or send a flickr mail!
i'd really really appreciate it.
you can choose a print from this flickr or my old one
thanks!
Yorkshire Traction No 211 (JHE 511E) a Marshall bodied Leyland Leopard in the Railway Station Yard at Barnsley 2nd March 1970.
Photo details
Colour Slide scan
Agfa 35mm 64ASA
Camera Yashica Electro 35mm.
The Royal Exchange in London was founded in the 16th century by the merchant Sir Thomas Gresham on the suggestion of his factor Richard Clough to act as a centre of commerce for the City of London.[1] The site was provided by the City of London Corporation and the Worshipful Company of Mercers, who still jointly own the freehold. It is trapezoidal in shape and is flanked by Cornhill and Threadneedle Street, which converge at Bank junction in the heart of the City. It lies in the ward of Cornhill. The building's original design was inspired by a bourse Gresham had seen in Antwerp, the Antwerp bourse, and was Britain's first specialist commercial building.
It has twice been destroyed by fire and subsequently rebuilt. The present building was designed by Sir William Tite in the 1840s. The site was notably occupied by the Lloyd's insurance market for nearly 150 years. Today the Royal Exchange contains a Courtyard Grand Cafe, Threadneedle Cocktail Bar, Sauterelle Restaurant, luxury shops, and offices.
Traditionally, the steps of the Royal Exchange is the place where certain royal proclamations (such as the dissolution of parliament) are read out by either a herald or a crier. Following the death or abdication of a monarch and the confirmation of the next monarch's accession to the throne by the Accession Council, the Royal Exchange Building is one of the locations where a herald proclaims the new monarch's reign to the public.
Looking down Exchange Street during the blizzard back in late January. The snow-obscured vanishing point caught my eye.
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“Corn Exchange Leeds” … 7 vertical images stitched together, the original image was 40” x 22”. A great place, well worth a visit.
Image ©Licensed to i-Images Picture Agency. 18/10/2018. London, United Kingdom. Policy Exchange.
From left to right; Admiral Lord West, Brian Wood MC, Dean Godson, General Petraeus, Julie Marionneau and Johnny Mercer MP, during a panel at Policy Exchange in an event on the legal pursuit of veterans.
Picture by Gustavo Valiente / i-Images