LIVERY November 2014 BRIEFING

Lord Mayor’s Address to Masters, include a lunch to be called the Clockmakers’ Museum Prime Wardens and the Upper Bailiff Brigantes Breakfast in Manchester on Liverymen may be aware that there The Lord Mayor, Alderman Alan 29 May primarily for liverymen living have been discussions between the Yarrow, spoke to the masters and in the north of ; a new Trial & Clockmakers and the City of clerks of the 110 livery companies in Error performance at the , Corporation about the future of the Mansion House on 19 November, and by HM judges and other thespians Clockmakers’ Museum, which for over then answered questions. The text of on 9-11 March; and the second inter- 140 years past has been in Guildhall his address may be read online. livery rifle shoot at Bisley on 18 June. Library. The Clockmakers have now decided to move the collection to The Times profile of the Lord The now well established inter-livery the Science Museum, where they Mayor, to which the Chairman skiing is in January, and the Lord have been offered a dedicated of the Livery Committee referred Mayor’s Big Curry Lunch at Guildhall space in a new gallery, and the new in his introduction, can be will be on 16 April. display will open to the public in late downloaded online. summer 2015. Full details of all these and many more are at www.liverycompanies.info/city- The Corporation is sorry Lord Mayor’s Show diary.html to see the Clockmakers go, after a Following the formal swearing in of long association, but appreciates that Alderman at the Silent their new home is an appropriate one Ceremony in Guildhall the previous City Briefings with opportunities for larger public afternoon, the new Lord Mayor City Briefings, held at Guildhall in audiences. We wish the Clockmakers paraded through the City streets the early evening, are aimed at well in their new home. in a spectacular Show, featuring introducing Liverymen and Freemen many of the livery companies, to the City of London Corporation including his own - the Fishmongers. and its links with the Livery. They will Mary Berry made a Baker! Also with floats were the Feltmakers, be given next year on 18 February, At the traditional ceremony at the Lady Mayoress’s livery, and 6 May, 14 October, and Guildhall, “celebrity chef” Mary Berry the joint beneficiaries of this year’s 23 November. Further information CBE (of The Great British Bake-Off) was Lord Mayor’s Appeal, Mencap and and details on booking are available made a liverymen of the Worshipful Scope. at www.liverycommitteecourses.org/ Company of Bakers on 19 November, index.php. following her grant of . She had previously been Poppy Ceremonies an Honorary Liveryman, but her City The Masters of the 110 livery Aldermanic Elections Freedom has made her eligible to companies, together with other There are to be contested elections receive the full livery of the Bakers’. representatives of the City of London, in the wards of and and the Lord Mayor and Sheriffs, , as follows: were present at a service to open The World Traders receive their Royal Garden of Remembrance at St Paul’s 5 December – Dowgate (sitting Charter Cathedral on 3 November. Each Alderman has completed her six year At a ceremony at Mansion House placed a poppy cross in memory of term). on 14 October, presided over by the their liverymen who died in the two • Alison Gowman, standing for re- Lord Mayor Locum Tenens, Alderman World Wars and subsequent conflicts. election Sir David Howard, the newly installed The service was conducted by the • Henry Pollard Master World Trader, Mr Mark Hardy, Dean, the Very Revd. David Ison, and received the Company’s first Royal it marked the start of Remembrance 9 December - Bishopsgate (on the Charter from the Windsor Herald. The Week, culminating in the two minute retirement of Neil Redcliffe) World Traders were formed as a silence at 11am on 11 November, • James De Sausmarez in 1985, became a company without Armistice Day. • Simon Duckworth livery in 1993, and took their place as • Baroness Patricia Scotland the 101st in 2000, the • Adrian Waddingham first new livery company of the new Diary Dates millennium! At that time, the Court of At www.liverycompanies.info there More information is available at Aldermen required a gap of at least is a comprehensive diary of livery www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/about- seven years between each stage of related events rolling forward over the-city/how-we-work/elections-and- the progression to livery. the next 12 months. Aside from wards/Pages/forthcoming-elections. individual company events, there aspx are many sporting, educational and social activities arranged, often open to all liverymen. New examples

1 Dock Heritage Mosaic Bedrooms at Guildhall and act as a one stop gateway to Timeline Masters and Clerks are reminded that all sites of relevance or interest to Queenhithe Wharf, on the North bank a number of bedrooms are available liverymen www.liverycompanies. of the Thames, between for use at Guildhall, priced at £95 per info. There you will find links to the and Blackfriars bridges is believed to night for a double room and £60 for a Fishmongers site, the bookings page be the only remaining Anglo Saxon single room. Bookings can be made for the Livery Committee courses and dock in the world. An impressive new by emailing remcommitteerooms@ briefings, a Diary of forthcoming livery Mosaic has been unveiled by the Lord cityoflondon.gov.uk or by telephoning events, and much more. Additions Mayor and celebrates the key events 0207 332 3476. Whilst City of London and corrections can be made and personalities that built, used Corporation Members do have priority on request (subject to the Editor’s and lived around Queenhithe in the booking on the rooms, at least a approval). form of a 30m long timeline mosaic week’s notice will be provided should on the wall of the Dock. The layers any clashes occur. Rooms are also of meaning and symbolism in the available to Immediate Past Masters Livery Briefing 160 mosaic panels and 240 river tile who are deputising for their Master on This newsletter is published by the surrounds echo the Bayeux tapestry official business. Public Relations Office and the Town and stained glass windows when Clerk’s Department at Guildhall, most people could not read and on behalf of the Livery Committee enjoyed visual imaginations. Website www.liverycompanies.info/livery- The project was undertaken by There are many websites that give committee. This Briefing is also Southbank Mosaics, and was the useful information about livery published at www.liverycompanies. vision of the alderman for the ward, companies, or relevant facts and info - go to Library. Feedback and Gordon Haines. background of interest to liverymen. contributions for the next edition are The Livery Committee has created a welcome. Copy deadline: 14 January. site that aims to pull all these together, Please send contributions to gregory. [email protected]

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