Change Alley, EC3V
A 1950s (or earlier?) City of London street sign from Change Alley, EC3.
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Change Alley is a thoroughfare between Lombard Street and Cornhill in London’s financial district.

It is the site in the 17th century of London’s coffeehouses where shares and commodities were first traded and the location of the South Sea Bubble in 1711-1720.

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