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Worshipful Company of Founders

Worshipful Company of Founders

Founders were workers in brass and brass alloys or tinplate. They made small objects such as candlesticks and weights and measures. From their website (link now dead): "Today ... the Founders' Com...

Group, Craft / Design, Liveries & Guilds

3 memorials
Worshipful Company of Fruiterers

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

5 memorials
Sir Sydney Harold Gillett, Bt., M.C., F.C.A.

Sir Sydney Harold Gillett, Bt., M.C., F.C.A.

Sydney Harold Gillett was Lord Mayor in 1958. He seems to have not used the 'Sydney' in his name. Alderman, and Sheriff in the City of London in 1952. Awarded the MC in 1916 and knighted in 1953. ...

Person, Armed Forces, Liveries & Guilds, Lord Mayor, Politics & Administration

2 memorials
Girdlers' Hall

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

1 memorial
Worshipful Company of Glaziers and Painters of Glass

Worshipful Company of Glaziers and Painters of Glass

The Guild of Glaziers (who made glass) existed in 1328 and received a Royal Charter from Charles I in 1638.

Group, Liveries & Guilds

1 memorial
Glaziers Hall

Glaziers Hall

The first Glaziers Hall was in Fye Foot Lane and lost in the Great Fire. Fye Foot Lane (which isn't indexed in any of our modern-day maps) runs between Queen Victoria Street and Castle Baynard Stre...

Building, Liveries & Guilds

1 memorial
Glovers' Hall

Glovers' Hall

The History and Antiquities of Dissenting Churches and Meeting ..., Volume 3, 1810, gives the history of Glovers' Hall, as follows: In Beech Street, at Beech Lane, originally part of a palace belo...

Building, Liveries & Guilds

1 memorial
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