One of my favourite spots South of the river, Borough High St., London Bridge and Southwark. This picture was taken in the 1920s and a lot has changed since then! I'm amazed at how prominent the Hop Exchange building was (it's roughly in the middle of the picture below the imposing Southwark cathedral, it's a long thin white building with lot's of tall windows)
The building is still there minus the top 2 floors (see above) and now contains a conference venue, offices and some restaurants. As suggested by the name this grade II building used to be the place where hops from Kent, bought to London by rail or river were traded on a large open outcry exchange floor, there were many such exchanges in the city for different commodities most of which were destroyed in WWII, but this one survives, an amazing space.
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