At 101 Queen Victoria Street 1668 - 1785, according to the plaque but strangely the Salvation Army's account of the history of the site of their offices doesn't mention it. In 1785 the lease on the Hall was given up and the Company effectively wound up, since it was proving impossible to maintain control over blacksmithery as a profession. Their website says: "In recent years a new movement has arisen".
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Blacksmiths' Hall
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Parish Clerks' Hall
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Martin Spencer
Swan Marker and Barge Master of the Vinters Company c.2006-7. Modelled for the figure in the Vintners statue. Deceased by 2023.
Robert Lancaster
Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Stationers who died in WW1. Andrew Behan has kindly provided this research: Second Lieutenant Robert Lancaster was born in 1880, the third son and the sixth ...
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Geological Society of London
WC2, Great Queen Street, 63, Connaught Rooms
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Sir David Attenborough
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F. Ring
Resident of Willesden who volunteered and died in the Anglo Boer War, 1899-1900.
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