wool exchange

Even the wool exchange in Melbourne could not be told from the familiar stock exchange of other countries.

Built in 1896, the 11-story structure originally was the Wool Exchange, in the heart of what was then the city's wool district.

There is very little on dyeing, spinning and weaving cloth or the languages needed for trading on the floor of the Wool Exchange!

Christchurch Wool Exchange (1962-1964)

Permission was granted to demolish the Fruit and Wool exchange on the edge of old spitalfields market to provide office buildings by developer exemplar.

It was originally known as the Wool Exchange Building, and owned by the Wool Warehouse Company.

The Australian Wool Exchange conducts sales primarily in Sydney, Melbourne, Newcastle, and Fremantle.

Many buildings from this era survive around Leathermarket Street including the huge Leather, Hide and Wool Exchange (now residential and small work spaces).

Modern languages teaching was also important: it was said that on the Bradford Wool Exchange it was possible to hear every European language on any morning of the week.

In any case, the mills went, the offices grew dark, the once-bustling Wool Exchange dwindled to a dusty nothingness, and now you would never guess that Bradford had ever known greatness.

The Swan Arcade was a four-storey building located between Market Street and Broadway, Bradford, UK and stood opposite the Wool Exchange.

The Wool Exchange Building in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England is a grade I-listed building built as a wool-trading centre in the 19th century.

Disrupting the staple connection between the towns of Flanders and the sources of English wool should divert it to the towns of Brabant, notably the recently-established wool exchange.

The north side is bounded by the London Fruit and Wool Exchange building, which is now used primarily as office space for small businesses and a storage warehouse for an import-export company.

Most Australian wool is sold at auction sales in Sydney, Melbourne, Newcastle, and Fremantle which are conducted by the Australian Wool Exchange (AWEX).

Mickey Davis, organiser of the huge basement air raid shelter, affectionately known as 'Mickey's Shelter', at the Spitalfields Fruit & Wool Exchange during the Blitz, thus saving many lives.

But as Susan navigated her way through the one-way streets of the city centre, past the gothic Victorian Wool Exchange and the Town Hall, with its huge campanile tower, Bradford still felt to her like a nineteenth-century city in fancy dress.

The neo-Gothic Wool Exchange (still used for trading in wool by dealers from home and abroad) in Market Street is a Victorian extravaganza built in 1864-7 by the architects Lockwood and Mawson, who also designed Bradford's Town Hall.

There are some fine Victorian buildings: apart from the abundance of mills, there is the City Hall (with statues of rulers of England unusually including Oliver Cromwell), the former Wool Exchange, and a large Victorian cemetery at Undercliffe.

This style represents the top level of fineness, character, color, and style as determined on the basis of a series of parameters in accordance with the original dictates of British Wool as applied today by the Australian Wool Exchange (AWEX) Council.