The Wool Exchange in Basinghall Street
The Wool Exchange in Basinghall Street
Record No
38120
Title
The Wool Exchange in Basinghall Street
Description
View of the c1874 Wool Exchange building at 24 to 26 Basinghall Street, City of London, looking east across a vacant plot. The Gothic-style five-storey building is clad in pink granite at the ground floor with white stone above, and features pillars with ornate capitals, Romanesque balustrading, full storey-height glazing with stone mullions, and ornate arches and pilasters at the top floor. Businesses seen occupying the building include James Carr and Sons Limited, right, and Heaken and Company Limited. Bevois House at numbers 27 to 30, left, and Weavers' Hall at number 22, right, are visible. The Wool Exchange and adjacent buildings have since been redeveloped with the nine-storey steel-framed Woolgate Building (recently refurbished), occupied by insurance companies and banking firms. The vacant plot on the west side of Basinghall Street in the foreground, has been cleared and is seen providing laydown space for scaffolding materials. it has since been developed as the North Wing of the Guildhall providing offices for the City of London Corporation.
Date of execution
1962
Section
The London Archives
Collection
LCC Photograph Library
Medium
photograph
Catalogue No
SC_PHL_01_002_62_76
London picture map location
Exact
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