From Louis Zettersten: WORCESTER WHARF – Here stood in the 15th century Worcester House, belonging to the Earls of Worcester, but Stow records that the palace was "now divided into many tenements."
In the late 16th and early 17th Century the Fruiterers' Company had their hall in this house. Probably lost in the Great Fire. It is the building to the right in the engraving.
Not to be confused with Worcester House - Strand.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Worcester House - City
The plaque doesn't mention Fruiterers Passage but we believe the unveiling of...
Master of the Innholders' Company in 1950.
Initially a Guild of Stationers - booksellers who copied, decorated and sold manuscript books. By about 1650 the printers had largely taken over from the manuscript boys. In 1557 they received a...
The Curriers' Company began in 1272. From 1605 it built itself 6 Halls in the City, the last in 1876 (pictured), which it had to sell in the 1920s. Since then it has enjoyed the hospitality of othe...
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...
Loriners make and sell bits, bridles, spurs, stirrups, saddle trees and the minor metal items of a horse's harness. The company was incorporated in 1711. Women were not admitted until 1989 - bette...
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