Dyers' Hall
The Worshipful Company of Dyers was incorporated in 1471. Their Hall in Upper Thames Street was lost in the Great Fire of 1666. Rebuilt, it burnt down again in 1681. They then moved to Dowgate H...
The Worshipful Company of Dyers was incorporated in 1471. Their Hall in Upper Thames Street was lost in the Great Fire of 1666. Rebuilt, it burnt down again in 1681. They then moved to Dowgate H...
The earliest record for the Fan Makers Company is in 1670 when they raised a petition to Parliament complaining about the threat to their industry from foreign imports. The Fan Makers' Hall in Red ...
Waymarking says this "It was the home of the Fellowship Porters who, towards the end of their existence as a Company, seem to have transacted their business at 22 Beer Lane. They were formed of tw...
Chairman of Cripplegate Institute in 1894. Henry James Felton is listed as a churchwarden at St Giles Cripplegate in 1885 and as a vestryman in 1887. His son, Charles Page Felton, attended City of...
Person, Industry, Liveries & Guilds, Politics & Administration
John Fettes was born on 24 February 1871 at 5 Warner Street, Southwark, Surrey (now Greater London), the second of the seven children of James Thomson Fettes (1843-1916) and Elizabeth Morrison Fett...
A late-comer to the City guilds. Formed by Gerald Clarkson, in 1988. 13 June 1995 granted the status of a City Company without Livery. 23 October 2001 it became known as the Worshipful Company ...
Architect and surveyor. Churchwarden of St Andrew-by-the-Wardrobe. He and his sons, Banister Flight Fletcher and Herbert Phillips Fletcher, formed the architectural practice: Banister Fletcher &...
Person, Architecture, Liveries & Guilds, Politics & Administration, Property
The Founders' first hall was built in what is still called "Founders' Court" in 1549. It was destroyed in the Great Fire of London in 1666 and rebuilt. Our picture shows the Hall in 1848, when leas...
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...