Liverpool cotton exchange, Exchange Flags
Depot, Liverpool, United Kingdom.
- Side
- Confederate
- Kind
- Depot
- Where
- Liverpool, United Kingdom
- Years
- 1861-1865
- Today
- Built over
LIVERPOOL COTTON EXCHANGE
Liverpool's cotton trade was conducted at Exchange Flags behind the Town Hall. Blockade runners sent cotton stored at Nassau on to England, usually to Liverpool, and 71,751 bales of American cotton arrived in 1862. Raw cotton rose from 6.5d a pound in 1861 to 27.5d in 1864.
Then
Liverpool's cotton trade was conducted at Exchange Flags behind the Town Hall. Almost enough of the 1861 American crop reached Liverpool to supply the mills, and 71,751 bales of American cotton arrived there in 1862. Blockade runners sent cotton stored at Nassau on to England, usually to Liverpool.
Raw cotton rose from 6.5d a pound in 1861 to 27.5d in 1864.
Now
Built over
The exchange buildings of the war years were demolished. The present Exchange Flags building of 1939 to 1955 holds the Western Approaches Museum.
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