The Hop Exchange (London)

United Kingdom / England / London / Southwark Street, 24
 office building, place with historical importance, historic landmark
The Hop Exchange, opened in 1868 and, designed by R.H Moore, stands imposingly on Southwark Street in Borough. Bankside, and more specifically the area around Borough, was the centre of London's brewing industry from the 17th century onwards.

Contact:
Peer Group Plc.
The Hop Exchange,
Bankside,
24 Southwark Street,
London SE1 1TY
Tel: 020 8567 9090
Email: info@hopexchange.co.uk
www.hopexchange.co.uk/

In this building

  1. Mulberry - Fashion Show
  2. Credit Lyonnais Bank (Crédit Agricole Commercial Finance)
  3. Lille the Pink - The Travel Magazine
  4. Schroder Investment Management Ltd
  5. Financial Times Newspaper
  6. Arab Bank Group
  7. Goldman Sachs International
  8. Shell Gas Direct
  9. Nomura
  10. Delaneys
  11. Harbottle and Lewis Solicitors
  12. KPMG Consulting
  13. Ernst and Young
  14. Eley Kishimoto - Fashion Show
  15. Valtech
  16. Superbrands
  17. Vodafone Telecom
  18. Valuation Consulting Ltd
  19. Mondex International
  20. New Zealand Wine Guild
  21. Chilean Wine Guild
  22. Edward Symmons
  23. Southwark Cathedral
  24. BBC Television
  25. Scotticsh Television
  26. Chase Manhatten
  27. DPR Consulting
  28. West LB
  29. Barclays
  30. Henry Mee Exhibition
  31. Epic/Lovels
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Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hop_Exchange
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Coordinates:   51°30'17"N   -0°5'29"E

Comments

  • The hop is a climbing vine-like plant that can be used as a traditional preservative in beer. It imparts a distinctive bitter taste, the essential flavoring of English “bitter” beers, traditionally drunk at room temperature. Hops were introduced to England from the Netherlands, possibly around the Seventeenth-Century. Hops are grown in Herefordshire and Kent, but it is the latter source that supplied the brewers of Southwark and of wider London, and that was offered for auction upon the floor of The Hop Exchange. Kentish hops were harvested by seasonal London labor and brought to Southwark by river or later by rail to London Bridge. The Hop and Malt Exchange was built to the design of RH Moore with extensive skylights to illuminate the trading floor and stories of internal balconies for the bidders. Behind the balconies are traders’ offices. The cast iron balcony rails are decorated by courses of the arms of The County of Kent, a white horse rampant upon a gules shield. The splendid Southwark Street porch has an external tympanum with a fine sculpted relief illustrating hop-pickers at work. Many similar commodity exchanges once graced London, but most have fallen to war, fire or re-development. The Hop Exchange was itself severely damaged by fire in 1918, necessitating the removal of the upper two stories. Since the demolition of The Coal Exchange in the 1960’s, and the successive modernizations of the Stock and Metal Exchanges, The Hop Exchange has been the only survivor of the metropolis’s old-fashioned outcry floors.
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