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Corn Exchange, St Neots (J Phillips date unknown)

Corn Exchange, High Street, St Neots

History of Corn Exchange

St Neots’ Corn Exchange was built in the 1860s with a cupola. In 1915 it was purchased by C A James who opened a cinema.  It caught fire in 1929 and the cupola collapsed. It was reopened as the Pavilion Cinema until 1969 when the whole building was demolished.

Corn Exchange, High Street, St Neots c1888

A clock was fitted to the Corn Exchange to mark Queen Victoria’s Jubilee in 1887. Mr Kirby was no longer at his shop on the corner of New Street by 1890.

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