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
Old Serjeant's Inn
There is a 53 page, privately printed history of the Old Serjeants Inn, published in 1912 by the Law Union and Rock Insurance Company Ltd, who acquired the property in 1909.
1 memorial
John Jaques
Businessman. Founder of the John Jaques and Son Toy Company, which produced and patented ping pong equipment. See also Jaques of London.
1 memorial
Frost Fairs
There are records of the Thames freezing over as far back as CE 250. The piers of old London Bridge were broad and close together, meaning that they could get easily blocked creating a dam which wo...
1 memorial
Barber Beaumont
Army officer, painter, philanthropist. Born John Thomas Barber and in 1812 for no known reason, he added the name of Beaumont. He specialised in historical and portrait miniatures, and displayed at...
3 memorials
Lyons first teashop
See Joseph Lyons and J. Lyons & Co. The photo is probably c.1930/40s.
1 memorial
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