The Founders' first hall was built in what is still called "Founders' Court" in 1549. It was destroyed in the Great Fire of London in 1666 and rebuilt. Our picture shows the Hall in 1848, when leased out to The Electric Telegraph Co. In 1853 the Founders moved to St Swithin's Lane. In 1985 - 1987 a new building was erected on yet another site, at the east end of St. Bartholomew the Great in Cloth Fair.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Founders' Hall
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Founders' Hall - Cloth Fair, plaque with crest
Founders Hall, 1 Cloth Fair The Worshipful Company of Founders, Award of Hon...
Founders' Hall - Lothbury
We believe that, for all the livery companies, their Halls should be named wi...
Other Subjects
Glaziers Hall
The first Glaziers Hall was in Fye Foot Lane and lost in the Great Fire. Fye Foot Lane (which isn't indexed in any of our modern-day maps) runs between Queen Victoria Street and Castle Baynard Stre...
1 memorial
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 ...
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Worshipful Company of Launderers
Their coat of arms shows two women; one dressed as a Grecian godess, the other in a Victorian style uniform but both engaged in the labour of laundry. In contrast the 'about us' page of their webs...
1 memorial
Alexander Alfred Yeatman
Alexander Alfred Yeatman was born on 21 December 1858 at 20 Providence Place, Kentish Town, Middlesex (now Greater London), the second of the four children of Arthur Yeatman (1829-1903) and Elizabe...
Person, Liveries & Guilds, Music / songs, Politics & Administration
1 memorial
Cutlers' Hall
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...
1 memorial
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BBC Tower
N22, South Terrace
The BBC (who else?) have a good post about their time here. Pity this plaque had no room to mention John Logie Baird.
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
Sidney Street siege and fire
E1, Sidney Street, Wexford House
Our colleague Alan Patient decoded JEECS into ‘Jewish East End Celebration Society’ and the colourful something is their logo, so they ar...
2 subjects commemorated,
2 creators
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