1292 - first reference to ‘Free Fruiterers’. First charter in 1606. Their shield shows Adam and Eve with that first piece of fruit.
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Worshipful Company of Fruiterers
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Worcester House
The plaque doesn't mention Fruiterers Passage but we believe the unveiling of...
This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
Worshipful Company of Fruiterers
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Covent Garden Market
Large bronze relief "Fruit Porter Bronze", unveiled October 2006 by Mayor of ...
Fruiterers' Hall & Alley
{To the left of the Fruiterers Company crest:} On 19th January 2000 the Rt Ho...
Millennium tree - EC1
This flowering Malus tree "John Downie" was planted on the 19th January 2000 ...
Worcester House
The plaque doesn't mention Fruiterers Passage but we believe the unveiling of...
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John Bennet Lawes
Entrepreneur and agricultural scientist. Born at Rothamsted, Hertfordshire. He founded an experimental farm that eventually became the Rothamsted Experimental Station, and developed a superphosphat...
1 memorial
Hugh Mason
Records are sparse but it seems Mason owned a shop in St James's Market and in 1734 was appointed as porter at "His Majesty's Royal Palace of Somerset House". See William Fortnum for a few more wor...
1 memorial
Chartered Insurance Institute
The first Insurance Institute was established in Manchester, with a particular focus on fire insurance, given the number of textile manufacturers in the city. AÂ Royal Charter incorporating the Char...
1 memorial
National Provident Institution
In 1835 two men, who had been successful with the Friends Provident Institution, selling life assurance only to Quakers, formed the less choosy National Provident Institution, opening for business ...
2 memorials
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