Manchester, Royal Exchange 1885
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18262
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This was dubbed at the time 'the largest room in the world'. It was 4,405 square yards in area, and 96ft high and 125ft high to the top of the central dome. In this huge hall, cotton merchants from all over Lancashire did their bartering, and many a fortune was made or lost. At one stage there were eleven thousand members, who met every Tuesday and Friday to conduct business. There were numbers on the posts running down the hall, and letters on the posts across the hall, so businesses could co-ordinate where to meet in such a busy and packed room. It was here (in the second building, not the one we see in our picture) that Queen Victoria and Prince Albert were wined and dined on their visit to Manchester in 1851. A month later the Queen's Secretary wrote to say that the Queen had graciously granted that the Exchange be known as 'The Manchester Royal Exchange'.
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