Liverpool Cotton Exchange Building

The Liverpool Cotton Exchange Building occupies a full city block between Old Hall Street and Bixteth Street. You can identify the older sections of the complex by the huge, light-filled windows designed for inspecting cotton samples and the decorative cast-iron panels on Edmund Street that bear wreaths. Opened in nineteen oh six, this structure once served as the nerve center for the global cotton trade, featuring direct telegraph and telephone links to exchanges in New York, Bremen, and Bombay.