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Founders' Hall

Categories: Liveries & Guilds

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.

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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...

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Founders' Hall - Lothbury

We believe that, for all the livery companies, their Halls should be named wi...

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Other Subjects

John Harris Miles

John Harris Miles

Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Stationers who died in WW1. Andrew Behan has kindly provided this research: Second Lieutenant John Harris Miles was born on 30 May 1886 at 31 Ladbroke Garden...

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 Founders

Worshipful Company of Founders

Founders were workers in brass and brass alloys or tinplate. They made small objects such as candlesticks and weights and measures. From their website (link now dead): "Today ... the Founders' Com...

Group, Craft / Design, Liveries & Guilds

2 memorials
Joiners' and Ceilers' Hall

Joiners' and Ceilers' Hall

First recorded in 1375 as the Guild of St. James, Garlickhythe, the Worshipful Company of Joiners and Ceilers was granted a charter by Queen Elizabeth I in 1571.  'Ceilers' work in wood so this is ...

Building, Liveries & Guilds

1 memorial