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The Royal Exchange, Cornhill

The Royal Exchange was the commercial heart of old London. the first Royal Exchange was built in the sixteenth century and opened by Queen Elizabeth in 1570 and was destroyed during the Great Fire of London in 1666. A second exchange opened to merchants in 1669; it cost £80,000 to build. As with the first, it was built about a magnificent courtyard. This building perished by fire in 1838 and a third opened in 1844.

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