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The Free Trade Hall (Manchester)

 
Description: St Peter Street, Manchester. / The Free Trade Hall in Manchester, England, was for many years a focal point for public ... more
The Free Trade Hall (Manchester) ... debate and cultural activity in the city. Built near the site of the notorious 1819 Peterloo Massacre, on what is today Peter Street (formerly St. Peters Fields), it has historically been seen as a symbol of free trade and the wealth that it helped to generate for Manchester during the Industrial Revolution. It was also used as a concert hall. The Hallé Orchestra first performed there in 1858, and continued to do so until their move in 1996 to the Bridgewater Hall.

Newest Review: ... in 1819, the Free Trade Hall is significantly historically important as being the venue for a number of social and political reforms during the nineteenth and twentieth century. A great many sensitive issues have been debated at the Hall by significant names such as Disraeli, Gladstone, Churchill and the Suffragette Christabel Pankhurst - Dalai Lama visited the Hall in 1998. The Free Trade ... more

 ... Hall faça de bears a plaque duplicating Manchester City’s Coat of Arms, which was designed and created by Edward Walters in 1856. The plaque reads: "The site of...more

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Premium Review The Free Trade Hall (Manchester): Manchester's Historic Free Trade Hall (982 words)
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The History ========= The original Free Trade Hall was built in 1838 on the corner of St Peter Street and Southmill Street, formally known as South Street. The original structure took the form of a temporary wooden hall which was built to hold protest meetings during the “Anti-Corn Law League” - the ordinary people protested against the 1846 Corn Laws as it was seen as a symbol of the dominant ruling aristocracy’s feudal power over them and of the suppliers' profiteering on the cost of the common man’s staple food. The present Free Trade Hall, the third structure, and now a permanent stone building, was built ...  Read the complete review

 

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