From Louis Zettersten: WORCESTER WHARF – Here stood in the 15th century Worcester House, belonging to the Earls of Worcester, but Stow records that the palace was "now divided into many tenements."
In the late 16th and early 17th Century the Fruiterers' Company had their hall in this house. Probably lost in the Great Fire. It is the building to the right in the engraving.
Not to be confused with Worcester House - Strand.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Worcester House - City
The plaque doesn't mention Fruiterers Passage but we believe the unveiling of...
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...
Established by an Order of the Court at Aldermen on 22 September 1569, a Royal Charter being granted in 1937. Today it supports the trade in this country and helps to foster links with the craft ac...
Group, Craft / Design, Liveries & Guilds, Politics & Administration
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
Master of the Worshipful Company of Butchers, 1961 - 1962. Another escapee from nominative determinism! (see Brunel.)
The earliest record for the Fan Makers Company is in 1670 when they raised a petition to Parliament complaining about the threat to their industry from foreign imports. The Fan Makers' Hall in Red ...
