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...
Other Subjects
Bella Burge
Bella was married to boxer (and bank robber, see OldTimeMusicHall) Dick Burge. Â They took on the lease of the Surrey Chapel, an ex-chapel which had become a boxing ring in 1910. Â Renamed "The Ring"...
1 memorial
Thomas Bailey
Cut-glass manufacturer and philanthropist, resident in Brixton, who founded the Trinity Homes there in 1822. Originally from Staffordshire, Bailey made his money as a partner in Neale & Bailey...
1 memorial
Roman warehouse
The picture source says "Near the Courage Brewery Site archaeologists found the complete wooden floor of a riverside warehouse. Nothing like this has been found anywhere else. The basement would ha...
1 memorial
Charles Hart Bardouleau
Co-overseer in Mile End Old Town in 1885. The 1879 Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hamlet of Mile End Old Town gives his address as 112 White Horse Lane. Charles Hart Bardouleau was b...
Person, Commerce, Community / Clubs, Politics & Administration
1 memorial
First postmarks in the world
Inked date stamps were at first called 'Bishops marks' after their inventor, Henry Bishop, Postmaster General, 1660-1663.   The post office was receiving complaints about late arrival of the post. ...
1 memorial
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