Building    From 1285 

Cutlers' Hall

Categories: Liveries & Guilds

The first recorded Hall was on Ironmonger Lane close to the current Mercers' Hall. By the early 1400s they were in a building in Cloak Lane. Just before the Great Fire of 1666 the hall was rebuilt. It was totally lost but was quickly rebuilt, opening in 1670. It survived until 1882 when the District Railway Company needed the land and acquired it by compulsory purchase. The Cutlers moved to a newly built Hall on land in Warwick Lane, where a magnificent terracotta frieze by Benjamin Creswick represents cutlers cutlering, i.e. producing and trading in sharp-edged objects such as knives and swords.

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Cutlers' Hall

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Cutlers' Hall

Site of Cutlers' Hall, 1416 - 1883, rebuilt after the Great Fire 1666. The C...

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Dyers' Hall

Dyers' Hall

The Worshipful Company of Dyers was incorporated in 1471.  Their Hall in Upper Thames Street was lost in the Great Fire of 1666.  Rebuilt, it burnt down again in 1681.  They then moved to Dowgate H...

Building, Liveries & Guilds

1 memorial
Francis G. Truscott

Francis G. Truscott

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...

Person, Liveries & Guilds

War dead, WW1
1 memorial
J. A. Brewster

J. A. Brewster

Master of the Worshipful Company of Butchers, 1961 - 1962.  Another escapee from nominative determinism! (see Brunel.)

Person, Liveries & Guilds

1 memorial
Worshipful Company of Skinners

Worshipful Company of Skinners

Originally an association of fur traders, it is now an educational and charitable institution. It is one of the Livery Companies of the City of London.

Group, Commerce, Education, Liveries & Guilds

1 memorial
Worshipful Company of Innholders

Worshipful Company of Innholders

Taverns and alehouses provided drink and possibly food, whereas inns also provided bed and board for you and your horses.  Innholders received their first charter from Henry VIII in 1514 

Group, Community / Clubs, Food & Drink, Liveries & Guilds

1 memorial