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...
Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Stationers who died in WW1. Andrew Behan has kindly provided this research: Lieutenant Francis George Truscott M.C., was born on 12 August 1894 in Redhill, S...
1292 - first reference to ‘Free Fruiterers’. First charter in 1606. Their shield shows Adam and Eve with that first piece of fruit.
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...
The History and Antiquities of Dissenting Churches and Meeting ..., Volume 3, 1810, gives the history of Glovers' Hall, as follows: In Beech Street, at Beech Lane, originally part of a palace belo...
Their Hall, next to All Hallows Staining, was destroyed in the Great Fire.
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