Stock Exchange
Old Broad Street, London EC4

In the 17th and 18th centuries stockbrokers met and dealt in the City's many coffee houses but in 1773 London's first stock exchange was established in Threadneedle Street. 

Although the London Stock Exchange was the largest in the world until 1914, now it is third behind Tokyo and New York. 

The present building dates from 1969. The trading floor, once the centre of activity, became virtually redundant in 1986 when the business was computerised and markets are now made electronically.

For a time the public viewing gallery, from which had been possible to watch trading on the floor, remained open, but following a terrorist bomb attempt it is now closed. 

Not open to the public