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	Royal Exchange (London) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Royal Exchange in the City of London was founded in 1565 by Sir Thomas Gresham to act as a centre of commerce for the city.
		The Royal Exchange was officially opened by Queen Elizabeth I who awarded the building its Royal title, on January 23, 1571.
		A second exchange was built on the site, designed by Edward Jarman, which opened in 1669, and which was destroyed by fire in January 1838.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Royal_Exchange_(London) (287 words)

	Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Royal Exchange Theatre is a producing theatre in Manchester, England.
		The theatre is based in the Manchester Royal Exchange, a large Victorian building used until 1968 for cotton trading.
		In 1999 the Royal Exchange was awarded the title of Theatre of the Year in the Barclays Theatre Awards, in recognition of its successful refurbishment and ambitious re-opening season.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Royal_Exchange_Theatre,_Manchester (811 words)

	Victorian London - Buildings, Monuments and Museums - Royal Exchange
		Royal Exchange (The) was opened by Queen Victoria on January 1st, 1845.
		The first Exchange was opened by Queen Elizabeth in 1570, who, by her herald, declared the house to be “The Royal Exchange.” Sir Thomas Gresham introduced exchanges into England, but they had been popular in most of the commercial cities of Italy, Germany, and the Netherlands, many years previous to their adoption here.
		The first stone of the Royal Exchange was laid by Prince Albert on January 17th, 1842; and the building was opened by the Queen in state on October 28th, 1844.
	www.victorianlondon.org /buildings/royalexchange.htm (1491 words)

	Royal Exchange, London
		The Royal Exchange building was founded by Thomas Gresham in 1566.
		He is commemorated by a statue on the east side of the 60m/197ft high tower and by the weather vane in the form of a grasshopper, the heraldic device of the Gresham family.
		Above the gable tympanum is a relief by Sir Richard Westmacott representing "Trade and the Freedom of the Exchange".
	www.planetware.com /london/royal-exchange-gb-l-rex.htm (169 words)

	Guardian Royal Exchange
		Guardian Royal Exchange has announced a reorganisation that will result in the combination of all its healthcare operations under the PPP Healthcare name, the closure of offices in Eastbourne and Folkestone, and the loss of 300 jobs.
		Guardian Royal Exchange is planning to expand its North American business by acquiring small commercial and motor insurance companies, but appears to be losing interest in the acquisition of a UK life assurer.
		Guardian Royal Exchange is looking for acquisitions in the life insurance markets in the UK and Germany, as well as the general sector in the US.
	www.ukbusinesspark.co.uk /gue31280.htm (304 words)

	ANTIQUE PRINTS OF LONDON AT ASH RARE BOOKS: THE ROYAL EXCHANGE
		A vignette view of the Exchange from the south-west - the Bank of England beyond - with an early London omnibus in the foreground.
		A handsome antique print of the rebuilt Royal Exchange from the south-west - the Bank of England beyond and one of the new London omnibuses prominent in the foreground.
		The offices of Royal Exchange Life Assurance are clearly marked - and the premises of Allison, Knight & Co., tailors, at 16 Cornhill, are clearly shown at the extreme right.
	www.ashrare.com /royal_exchange_prints.html (5368 words)

	Conran Events - Royal Exchange Grand Cafe & Bar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Located in the heart of the City of London, the Royal Exchange is an internationally recognised symbol of London’s leading position in global trade and finance.
		Originally built in the 16th Century, the Royal Exchange was extensively and sympathetically remodelled in 2001.
		The Royal Exchange is divided into three spaces — the main ground floor courtyard is flanked by two mezzanine areas.
	www.conran.com /events/venues/royalExchange (138 words)

	Articles - City of London (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The modern conurbation of London developed from the City of London and the nearby City of Westminster, which was the centre of the royal government.
		A section near the Museum of London was revealed after the devastation of an air-raid on 29 December 1940 at the height of the Blitz.
		The City of London is England´s smallest ceremonial county by both population and area covered and is the second smallest British city in both population and size, after St David´s in Wales.
	www.1-furniture.net /articles/City_of_London (1525 words)

	A Brief History of London
		London Bridge was completed in 1209 and remained the only stone bridge over the Thames for five and a half centuries and the only bridge in the city until Blackfriars Bridge was built in 1769.
		The City of London or 'The City' is a small area of one square mile, which was the original settlement and now forms the business and financial district.
		In close proximity to the Minories is The Tower of London, which over the years has served many purposes, including: a Palace; a Prison; place of execution; housed royal armouries; the Mint; the Royal Observatory; the Royal Menagerie; the Public Records; and today houses the Crown jewels.
	www.ambest.com /about/london.html (528 words)

	Bank of England - History of London - Imperial-London.me.uk
		A familiar sight in the London streets towards evening, used to be files of Grenadier Guards marching from their barracks to take up their quarters for the night inside the Bank, a custom dating from the year of the Gordon Riots, 1780.
		The Union Bank of London declared a dividend of 12 per cent for the same year, which was its Diamond jubilee, and it was stated that since its establishment it had paid away to its fortunate shareholders no less than nine millions.
		Yet London Banks are not permitted to have the field to themselves, and it was stated at a meeting of the Institute of Bankers that in 1899 - so much had competition in banking grown - thirteen first-class foreign houses, whose united capital amounted to about 50 millions sterling, had offices in London.
	www.imperial-london.me.uk /bank-of-england.php (1339 words)

	Royal Exchange in London EC3: tourist information from TourUK
		The Royal Exchange was founded by Sir Thomas Gresham in 1565.
		The present Royal Exchange, with its neo-classical portico, overshadows the Bank of England, and was designed by William Tite and opened by Queen Victoria in 1844.
		The forecourt of the Royal Exchange was first place in Britain to have public lavatories, built in 1855 for male use only.
	www.touruk.co.uk /london_sights/royalexchange1.htm (177 words)

	Royal Exchange
		The Royal Exchange at Threadneddle Street was originally set up by Sir Thomas Gresham in 1566 in an attempt to supplant the Bourse at Antwerp as the chief European market-place.
		Rudolf Ackermann, Royal Exchange, from Microcosm of London (1808)
		The spacious staircases lead to a gallery occupied by the Lord Mayor's court-office, the Royal Exchange assurance office, the merchant's seamen's office, Lloyd's subscription coffee-houses, the rooms appropriated for Gresham lectures, and counting houses for merchants and underwriters.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /LONexchange.htm (237 words)

	Pepys' Diary: Royal Exchange
		The Royal Exchange is now open to members of the public and free to enter.
		The greatest of these was Sir Thomas Gresham (1517/18–79), advisor to Elizabeth I. “Gresham was chiefly responsible for establishing the Royal Exchange in 1565.
		“The Royal Exchange was built at the junction of Cornhill and Threadneedle Street in the City.
	www.pepysdiary.com /p/189.php (438 words)

	The City of London - The Square Mile - Free Pictures - FreeFoto.Com
		The boundaries are basically the Tower of London in the east, the Temple Bar in the west and the River Thames in the south and Smithfield in the north.
		The present St Paul's Cathedral was designed by Christopher Wren as part of the re-building of London after the fire, and the building was eventually completed in 1710.
		The City of London is an area of about one square mile, sometimes known as the Square Mile, on the north bank of the River Thames.
	www.freefoto.com /browse.jsp?id=31-04-12 (390 words)

	Royal Exchange History
		Richard Gresham, a London mercer dealing in cloth and who supplied the tapestries for Henry VIII’s Hampton Court, realised this trading centre’s importance and urged the establishment of a similar centre in London.
		Then in 1968 the Guardian and Royal Exchange Assurances were amalgamated to form the Guardian Royal Exchange (GRE) and in 1982 the London International Financial Futures Exchange (LIFFE) occupied the original trading floor.
		In 2001 the Royal Exchange was once again extensively and sympathetically remodelled with the result that today it is an appropriate home for many of the world’s finest merchants.
	www.theroyalexchange.co.uk /about-us/history.asp (1113 words)

	George Glazer Gallery - Perspective View of the Outside of the Royal Exchange (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		In 1766 he was elected to the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture and nominated as a Peintre du Roi.
		Bartolozzi was an engraver, etcher and painter born in Florence, Italy.
		A prolific engraver, he developed a stipple method invented in France, and his work was admired for its subtle modulations of light and shade and his sensitive and graceful portrayal of the human form.
	www.georgeglazer.com /prints/aanda/historic/royalexchange.html (446 words)

	INSURANCE - Online Information article about INSURANCE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Exchange" to insure houses in London, by assuming the risk of loss to a fixed amount for a fixed premium, namely, 21% of the yearly rent for See also:
		A fund of £40,000 subscribed as guaranty was to be increased by £20,000 for every ro,000 houses insured, and the interest of the fund alone therefore might be expected to meet all losses and leave a surplus.
		This was first undertaken on a large scale by the " Employers' Liability Assurance Corporation of London," founded for the purpose in 188o, immediately after the passage of the Employers' Liability Act by parliament, which made employers of labour liable for injuries sustained in their service to an extent unknown to the common law.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /I27_INV/INSURANCE.html (7754 words)

	Royal Exchange London User Reviews, , 26 Sale place
		The Royal Exchange is nice and close to Paddington Station and is a great old traditional pub, they have real ales, hot and cold Guinness and Murphy's.
		The atmosphere at the Royal Exchange is friendly, as is the service and the food is real pub grub.
		The views contained in these user reviews are not endorsed by Viewlondon in any way and are provided by users who wish to publish their independent views of the respective establishment.
	www.viewlondon.co.uk /user_pubbar_review_3342.html (115 words)

	London Metal Exchange (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The London Metal Exchange or LME is the world's largest market in cash and futures in base and other metals.
		The London Metal Market and Exchange Company was founded in 1877 but the market traces its origins back to 1571 and the opening of the Royal Exchange.
		There are a morning and an afternoon trade, where each of the eight metal contracts are traded in two blocks with a five minute session for each contract (the sessions last from 11.40 until 13.15 and from 15.10 unitl 16.35, each session includes a ten minute break).
	www.centipedia.com /articles/London_Metal_Exchange (342 words)

	London Stock Exchange - Our history
		Stock dealers are expelled from the Royal Exchange for rowdiness and start to operate in the streets and coffee houses nearby, in particular in Jonathanâs Coffee House in Change Alley.
		On this date, the first regulated exchange comes into existence in London, and the modern Stock Exchange is born.
		The 11 British and Irish regional exchanges amalgamate with the London exchange.
	www.londonstockexchange.co.uk /en-gb/about/cooverview/history.htm (716 words)

	Charles Dickens. Royal Exchange. London Tours. Leadenhall Market. Diagon Alley. (London Walks) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		In this quaint, atmospheric backwater of twisting passageways and dark courtyards, time appears to have stood still, and it is not difficult to conjure up images of Scrooge’s neighbours ‘wheezing up and down, beating their hands on their breasts, and stamping their feet upon the pavement stones to warm them’.
		References to the Royal Exchange are to be found in many of Dickens’s works, including Sketches by Boz, A Christmas Carol, Little Dorrit and Great Expectations (1860–61).
		Having passed through the Royal Exchange, descend the steps of its magnificent portico and pause to look over at the sturdy, grey bulk of the Bank of England, which is mentioned several times in Dickens’s novels.
	www.london-walks.co.uk /29/charles-dickens-royal-exc.shtml (1140 words)

	Sir Thomas Gresham
		Under Queen Elizabeth, besides continuing in his post as financial agent of the crown, he acted temporarily as ambassador at the court of the duchess of Parma, being knighted in 1559 previous to his departure.
		In 1565 Gresham made a proposal to the court of aldermen of London to build at his own expense a bourse or exchange, on condition that they purchased for this purpose a piece of suitable ground.
		From that time a room in the Royal Exchange was used for the lectures until in 1843 the present building was erected at a cost of £7000.
	www.nndb.com /people/955/000103646 (681 words)

	What's A Royal Exchange (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Are you a lover of the theatre, then it might be said that oustide of London, the Royal Exchange in Manchester has no peers, at least in the opinion of this particular member of the audience.
		The setting is one of the most grand, a true theatre in the round set inside the great hall of the Royal Exchange.
		Combined with sets that are often stunning, always original; acting that is always on the first league and you have the guarantee of quality theatre.
	ourworld.compuserve.com /HOMEPAGES/FAC/Royal_ex.htm (157 words)

	George Glazer Gallery - Sir Thomas Gresham, Founder of the Royal Exchange, London
		As the subtitle of the print states, it was "Engraved from the Original Picture in the Possession of the Late Lady Northhampton." Anthonis Mor (sometimes referred to as Antonio More or Moro) painted the original portrait and a companion portrait of Gresham's wife Anne Fermely in 1560.
		He served as Queen Elizabeth I's royal agent in the Netherlands and was knighted in 1559.
		Gresham stipulated in his will that revenue from the Exchange was to be used to fund an educational establishment to provide learned free lectures for the City of London.
	www.georgeglazer.com /prints/portraits/gresham.html (520 words)

	1090a Webb Royal Exchange London Wall Clock (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		A mahogany wall clock, the 13 inch dial painted with fl Roman numerals and the maker's name 'C. Webb, Royal Exchange, London' and with blued steel spade hands, with, unusually, the minute hand counter-balanced.
		He is first recorded working at 30, Buttesland St, City Road at the first date before moving to 1, Royal Exchange in 1864 where it is known he was still operating in 1875.
		It is quite probable that he used his middle name and initial as another Charles Webb was working in City Road at the same time having started some 3 years earlier.
	www.extence.co.uk /1090awebbwall.html (131 words)

	Welcome to the Royal Exchange Theatre (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Jacob Murray is an Associate Artistic Director at The Royal Exchange.
		LONDON ASSURANCE was written in 1841, and GREAT EXPECTATIONS sees Pip live through the late 1830’s and early 1840’s, as he becomes a man. But the stories could not have more different moods.
		THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING ERNEST has huge parallels with LONDON ASSURANCE: the journey from London into the country where a bookish young woman lives, waiting for a suitor she has never met to whisk her off her feet; the double identity theme; the difficult journey to marriage.
	www.royalexchange.co.uk /edu_feature_detail.asp?eiID=53 (1011 words)

	Royal Exchange Jewellers
		Our store is located at one of the best known buildings in the city of London, ‘Royal Exchange’.
		‘Royal Exchange’ is situated in the heart of the city of London’s financial district, opposite the Bank of England.
		‘Royal Exchange Jewellers’ is located on the outside of this stunning, grade 1 listed building at:
	www.royalexchangejewellers.com /storelocation (53 words)

	Architecture of Royal Albert Hall - Westminster, England
		he Royal Albert Hall is one of a group of institutions designed to showcase the best talent in Britain.
		Its compatriots are the Royal College of Art, the Imperial College of Science and Technology, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Natural History Museum, and the Science Museum.
		On the outside of the building are the words, "This Hall was erected for the Advancement of the Arts and Sciences, and works of industry of all nations, in fulfillment of the intentions of Albert, Prince Consort".
	www.glasssteelandstone.com /UK/England/London/RoyalAlbertHall.html (279 words)

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