Plaque: Smithfield - Poulters
{Below the crest:}
Remember your oath
{On flanking stones:}
Worshipful Company of Poulters
Arms removed from Former Company's property 29 Budge Row
A property in Budge Row was left to the Poulters in 1727. Pity the flanking stones don't say when the arms were removed since that probably happened when the property was sold.
Initially we thought that, of all the birds that might be found inside the Poultry Market surely the one you won't find is the swan. Unless you are the Queen when presumably you are served "under the counter". But then we read that in 1368, the Company of Poulters received the power to regulate the sale of poultry, swans, pigeons, rabbits and small game.
Site: Smithfield Poultry Market (3 memorials)
EC1, East Poultry Avenue
Referring to our photo, the plaques are,left to right: Poulters; opening; Butchers.
