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LIFFE photo linked from BBC
In reading up a bit more about the LIFFE trading floor closing, I found the following articles which I felt were worth linking:
"The end of Liffe as we know it" from The Independent Thursday, 6 August 1998
"Bleak futures for Liffe locals as pits close" also from The Independent Sunday, 15 August 1999
A snippet from the second article gave me a good laugh cause it was the only good word I've ever heard about Chicago traders: