[1] The imposing offices on the corner of Great Charles Street and Margaret Street, now a Grade II listed building, were home to the city's stock exchange from 1928 onwards, and were the centre of Birmingham stockbroking until their closure in 1986 after the Big Bang.
[2] Its function was to raise capital through joint stock issues for manufacturers, mineral extractors and railway companies.
It first met in the old Royal Hotel, then, after being held in various hired rooms in Waterloo Passage from c. 1874, it moved in c. 1894 to Newhall Street, where the building in existence in 1955 was opened in 1928.
Its building in Stephenson Place, which also served as a meeting place for various purposes, was opened in 1865 The Grocery Exchange was founded in 1866 and used the Corn Exchange buildings.
The Building Trades Exchange in Cannon Street was founded in 1905.