Stock Exchange

Stock Exchange
   Between Throgmorton Street north and Threadneedle Street south, at No.23 Throgmorton Street (P.O. Directory).
   First mention: Lockie, 1810. Erected 1801. Re-erected 1854. Archt., Thos. Allason, Jnr. Enlarged 1884 by J. J. Cole.
   The previous building, before the one in Capel Street, is shown in Horwood's map, 1799, at the north end of Sweeting's Alley, next the Royal Exchange, but Wheatley says the Stockbrokers originally met at New Jonathan's Coffee House in Change Alley. and altered the name in 1773 to "The Stock Exchange" (Welch).

A Dictionary of London. . 1918.

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