The Drapers' Company has owned the site since 1543. The first building was destroyed in the Great Fire of London, and its successor also burnt down in 1772. The current building was designed by John Gorham. Our picture is of the Livery Hall.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
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Drapers' Hall
Drapers' Hall On this site, once part of the Augustine Priory, Thomas Cromwel...
Master of the Worshipful Company of Butchers, 1961 - 1962.  Another escapee from nominative determinism! (see Brunel.)
Trustee of The Memorial Gates Trust. Bruce Bernard Weatherill, Baron Weatherill, KStJ, PC, DL, was born on 25 November 1920, the son of Bernard Bruce Weatherill (1883-1962) and Annie Gertrude Weat...
Person, Armed Forces, Commerce, Liveries & Guilds, Politics & Administration
Broderers were workers in embroidery. The Hall existed in Gutter Lane from 1515 but was burnt in the Great Fire of 1666. It was rebuilt but little used, let and became a warehouse in the 19th cent...
In 1476 the Tallow Chandlers bought what was probably a merchant’s house on Dowgate Hill and used that as their Hall. The Hall was destroyed in the Great Fire of 1666 and rebuilt 1671-3.  Damaged ...
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