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.
Girdlers are, unsurprisingly, makers of belts and girdles.
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Girdlers' Hall
Girdlers Hall Girdlers Hall, first built on this site in 1431, was destroyed...
Charter granted by King Henry VIIÂ in 1486. The City's second oldest guild. (Weavers is the answer to your question.)
Taverns and alehouses provided drink and possibly food, whereas inns also provided bed and board for you and your horses.  Innholders received their first charter from Henry VIII in 1514Â
George Robert Welby Wheeler was born on 20 November 1845 in Bermondsey, Surrey (now Greater London), the eldest of the six children of George Charles Wheeler (1820-1886) and Charlotte Wheeler née W...
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 Joh...
The Guild of Turners began sometime between 1295 and 1310.  King James I granted the first Royal Charter in 1604.  In the 15th and 16th centuries almost all the turners in London lived in one ver...
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