Initially a Guild of Stationers - booksellers who copied, decorated and sold manuscript books. By about 1650 the printers had largely taken over from the manuscript boys. In 1557 they received a Royal Charter of Incorporation.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Worshipful Company of Stationers
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Stationers' War Memorial
A beautiful, hand-crafted plaque - not just the frame, the gold lettering has...
This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
Worshipful Company of Stationers
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Stationers' War Memorial
A beautiful, hand-crafted plaque - not just the frame, the gold lettering has...
Wynkyn de Worde
The sun-burst was part of de Worde's printer's device - printed at the front ...
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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...
Blacksmiths' Hall
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...
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
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...
Professor Banister Fletcher
Architect and surveyor. Churchwarden of St Andrew-by-the-Wardrobe. He and his sons, Banister Flight Fletcher and Herbert Phillips Fletcher, formed the architectural practice: Banister Fletcher &...
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