Anti-Corn-Law League - Fleet Street, London, UK
N 51° 30.848 W 000° 06.452
30U E 700692 N 5710967
This plaque is on a building on the south side of Fleet Street at the junction with Whitefriars Street.
Waymark Code: WMGNH0
Location: London, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 03/24/2013
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The plaques, there
is one placed each side of the entrance door, reads:
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On this site
in the
years
1844 - 1846
were situated the
London offices
of
the
Anri-Corn-Law
League
with which
John
Bright
and
Richard Cobden
were so closely
associated
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The Encyclopaedia
Britannica website tells about the Anti-Corn League:
"Anti-Corn Law League, British organization founded
in 1839, devoted to fighting England’s Corn Laws, regulations governing the
import and export of grain. It was led by Richard Cobden, who saw the laws as
both morally wrong and economically damaging. The league mobilized the
industrial middle classes against the landlords, and Cobden won over the prime
minister, Sir Robert Peel. The Corn Laws were repealed in
1846."