Catalogue description RECORDS OF THE LIVERPOOL STOCK EXCHANGE

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Details of 332 LSE
Reference: 332 LSE
Title: RECORDS OF THE LIVERPOOL STOCK EXCHANGE
Description:

The collection contains a complete series of minute books and is a valuable source for the commercial and business history of Liverpool. The membership of the Exchange illustrates both the links and differences within the commercial community. The archive also contains excellent visual material that is a useful source for the local historian.
Date: 1836-1991
Arrangement:

The collection is arranged as follows:

 

332 LSE/1 Liverpool Stock Exchange Minute Books

 

332 LSE 2 Other records re: the Liverpool Stock Exchange

 

332 LSE 3 The Northern Stock Exchange

 

332 LSE 4 Records re: other connected financial bodies

 

332 LSE 5 Liverpool Stock Exchange 150th Anniversary Dinner, 8 April 1986

 

332 LSE 6 Miscellaneous documents, 1846-1972

 

332 LSE 7 Photograph albums

 

332 LSE 8 Loose photographs

 

332 LSE 9 Prints and drawings

 

332 LSE 10 Original financial documents

 

332 LSE 11 Press cuttings

 

332 LSE/12 Plaques
Held by: Liverpool Record Office, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Creator:

Liverpool Stock Exchange
Physical condition: Fair
Access conditions:

Access will be granted to any accredited reader
Immediate source of acquisition:

These records were deposited on indefinite loan by Mr. I. Bell, Area General Manager for the London Stock Exchange, North-west Region, in October 1991.

 

Acc. 4828
Subjects:
  • Liverpool
Administrative / biographical background:

The Liverpool Stock Exchange was founded in April 1836, and was first known as the Liverpool Sharebrokers' Association. The Association's 11 founding members first met in the Merchants' Coffee House on Chapel Street, before more permanent premises were found on Exchange Street West in July of that year, subsequently moving to rooms on the east side of Sweeting Street.

 

The founding members came from a variety of businesses, not only those connected with sharebroking. A wine merchant, and a gunpowder agent were amongst the original 11 members, which by the end of the first year had grown to 44.

 

Not all the sharebrokers in Liverpool joined the Association, and in 1843 a rival body established itself under the title of The Liverpool New Stock Exchange. However, 2 organisations eventually proved unnecessary, and the bodies joined in January 1844, moving into premises over the Royal Bank in Queen Avenue.

 

1851 saw the Liverpool Stock Exchange change premises again, firstly into the Liverpool Exchange Buildings. Land was later acquired on Dale Street, and a new Stock Exchange was built and opened for business on 26 March 1879. Finally completed in 1899, this building remained the home of the Liverpool Stock Exchange until the move to Silkhouse Court in December 1971.

 

Into the 20th century, as investment techniques became more complicated, the Liverpool Stock Exchange developed along with this new technology. By 1965 the Liverpool and other Northern exchanges had come together and formed the Northern Stock Exchange, and in 1973 all 7 exchanges in the British Isles amalgamated to form The Stock Exchange of Great Britain and Ireland. The Liverpool trading floor finally ceased to exist in May 1985.
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