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J. A. Brewster

Master of the Worshipful Company of Butchers, 1961 - 1962.  Another escapee from nominative determinism! (see Brunel.)

Person, Liveries & Guilds

Worshipful Company of Fruiterers

1292 -  first reference to ‘Free Fruiterers’.  First charter in 1606.  Their shield shows Adam and Eve with that first piece of fruit.

Group, Commerce, Liveries & Guilds

Worshipful Company of Stationers

Initially a Guild of Stationers - booksellers who copied, decorated and sold manuscript books. By about 1650 the printers had largely taken over from the manuscript boys. In 1557 they received a...

Group, Liveries & Guilds

Worshipful Company of Fruiterers's 400th Anniversary

Event, Commerce, Liveries & Guilds

Girdlers' Hall

First built in 1431, destroyed by the Great Fire in 1666, rebuilt in 1681, and again destroyed by enemy action in 1940.The picture shows the pillared portico of the old Girdlers' Hall, 1830.Girdle...

Building, Liveries & Guilds