Report - Coal Exchange, Cardiff - May 2016

[Shatners]

Stunning mate... building and photos.

 

[Lenston]

Cardiff Coal Exchange: Bride's worry after venue's shock closure

Heidi Watts and Alex McGregor have already paid the Coal Exchange over £4,000 for their wedding.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[albino-jay]

Wow, why have I never seen this before? Some building that, everything is unreal. Shame about the suspended ceiling but even so it doesn’t look too bad. Seriously though what a mega mega building.

 

[Bikin Glynn]

Old report I know but by fk that is lovely!

 

[Seffy]

Cardiff Coal Exchange: Bride's worry after venue's shock closure

Heidi Watts and Alex McGregor have already paid the Coal Exchange over £4,000 for their wedding.

www.bbc.co.uk

Very interesting... surely it won't be left to rot again now they've spent so much doing it up?

 

[SilverySprite]

Seems to be in new hands as of today… Leaseholder evicted from iconic Coal Exchange building

Team appointed to restore Cardiff's Coal Exchange

Martin Shipton The company that owns Cardiff’s iconic Coal Exchange has started to appoint the team that will hopefully restore it to its former glory. The north side of the Victorian Grade 2* listed building in the city’s Butetown district has partially collapsed and the hotel that was...

nation.cymru

It is a great structure but essentially they only had the funds to restore half of it, and the back half hasn’t had the capital invested to finish it. It makes some money out of weddings, events and conferences, but it’ll take a while to complete I think. It’s also opposite Baltic House, which last I heard, was being converted from offices into flats.

Baltic House, Mount Stuart Square, Cardiff

Baltic House dates from about 1915, when it replaced 17, 18 and 19 Mount Stuart Square, in a prominent position directly opposite the main entrance of the Coal Exchange. The architects were Teathe…

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[SilverySprite]

There’s some great historic photos on this tweet: https://x.com/welshsocialism/status/1260997281316306946?s=46

Nice to see the impetus to keep trying to restore. Few more from last few years below…