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Photograph © Wayne Lorentz/Artefaqs Corporation
Photograph © Wayne Lorentz/Artefaqs Corporation
Photograph © Wayne Lorentz/Artefaqs Corporation
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Built:
1842- 1844
Cost: £150,000
Designed by: Sir William Tite
Type: Retail
Location: Threadneedle at Cornhill Street
City: London
State: England
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proper building to convey all the attributes you would want in a financial institution: stability, history, and monolithic presence. All of that was achieved in a building that is far from original. The first exchange on this patch of ground burned down in the Great Fire of 1666. Its replacement burned in 1838. The current building features a line of Corinthian columns, behind which reside statues of Queen Elizabeth, Queen Victoria, and Charles II. The London Stock Exchange no longer conducts its trading here. In 1972 it moved to a modern office building. But money still changes hands. Now it has been converted into a shopping mall.
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