Manchester Stock Exchange

It was built at a cost of £86,000, between 1904 and 1906 by Bradshaw, Gass and Hope, the Bolton architectural practice responsible for many of Manchester's iconic buildings.

[2] A three-storey rectangular Edwardian Baroque building on an island site, the Manchester Stock Exchange is built in Portland stone.

[1] Pevsner described the interior as having "a magnificent hall with a dome supported at the corners by pilasters clad in sensuous green and cream marble".

The exchange listed railway companies as well as those involved in insurance, mining and manufacture, helping bring a "joint stock mania" to Manchester.

[5] A homeless activism group squatted the building site in 2015 and renamed it the "Sock Exchange" to publicise their provision of clothes to rough sleepers.