The Corn Exchange - Bristol UK
The Exchange is a Grade I listed building built in 1741–43 by John Wood the Elder, on Corn Street, near the junction with Broad Street in Bristol, England. It was previously used as a corn and general trade exchange but is now used as offices and it also accommodates St Nicholas Market.
The Exchange underwent major building work in 1872, including roofing over the courtyard, and again in the early 1900s when the City Valuer's Department moved to the building. Since World War II the external clock tower has been removed and the roof lowered.
Outside the building are four bronze pillar tables dating from the 16th and 17th centuries, known as "nails," at which merchants carried out their business. and from which the term 'Cash on the Nail" comes. At the front of the building is a clock showing both Greenwich Mean Time and "local time" before GMT became the national time across the country allowing the railway timetables to be rationalised
