squaremileguide.bsky.social
An accredited Tour Guide providing tours of London by licensed taxi; also bespoke walking tours in the City of London. Liveryman & Past Master Parish Clerk.
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Left her money to the Clothworkers' Co. Was there family ?
Packington Street in Islington.
Clothworkers' Arms on the Packington Estate now a private residence and unrecognisable.
Ram & Teasel PH also on the Estate now closed. Shame.
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The current resident of the Mansion House has Italian Greyhounds. Photo, when Sheriff. When he had his Shrieval Chain presentation at Painters' Hall, the dogs were in attendance.
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The Parish Clerk of St Mildred Poultry lives in Lymington.
Just saying... :)
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Thank you for posting these. I recall that we have chatted before about 'roots'. From which Fenland village was your Mother ? My maternal Grandfather was from Wigginhall St Mary Magdalen. Sadly the Dolphin Inn where my GGfather was, was demolished in the 80s to enable Ouse 'levee' improvement.
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Sounds intriguing. I want to take an excursion on Trinity House Vessel Galatea, visiting Light Houses. They take passengers ! I had the opportunity for private Lunch on THV Patricia years ago, while she was in Canary Wharf. I passed the offer. Still kicking myself.
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Jazz Police ? They are out there !
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In the early 70s, the son of the Landlord attended Forest School. A minor public school located at the 'posh' end of Walthamstow. #Trivia
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Blimey. I never knew. Demolishing a parish church is quite a drastic measure. I wonder what the back-story was.
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@westminsterwalks.bsky.social oops. Two pages of notes ! Demolished in 1976.
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Thanks. I never knew! Perhaps it was demolished before 1980 when I started driving. Do you know where in S Ave it was located ?
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There's a great interview on BBC Breakfast from some years ago on YouTube.
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My eyes are fixated on this when I am at the traffic lights at this particular junction.
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OK.
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The hours spent engraving the plate to produce the trade card, would simply not be economically viable these days.
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Incredible.
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The St Leonard Shoreditch Almshouses are in Myddleton Road Bowes Park / Wood Green. Have been since the 1960s, I believe.
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Greetings! I have had cause to dine at Vintners' on a number of occasions over the years, but to be a guest of the Vintners' Company and your Master Edward Berry, when I was Master Hackney Carriage Driver, is truly memorable. You have a song, as do the Parish Clerks ! Go well. SteveP.
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The Parish Clerks' earliest Charter is 1442, but by 1274 the Fraternity of St Nicholas was holding property in the Parish of St Ethelberga, Bishopsgate. Now known as Clerks' Place, a pedestrian walkway between Bishopsgate and St Mary Axe EC3.
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Congratulations.
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'Seventy Glorious Years' is a wonderful booklet. I have a cutting from the WF Guardian re Bill Bowstead, the last Mayor of Chingford. Re law courts: I'm thinking Ridgeway Magistrates &/or Crown Court. Likewise Farnan Ave Magistrates &/or Crown Court. I might be mistaken.
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I seem to recall that for a period (in the sixties?) there was a Crown Court by Chingford Town Hall. Though I guess that it would have been called an Assizes at that time; the Crown Court Act having not yet been enacted (?).
Maybe my memory is playing games.
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I simply hate losing things. Gloves, hats, scarves. Grrrr.
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Great thread. Thank you.
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a small tin of Hammerite, I guess.
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To celebrate the new Queen. Nice little urn finials.
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The Spotted Dog has been derelict for years. It is alleged that due to it being a listed building, the owners want it to simply collapse into a heap, that the site might be redeveloped. Whether that is true or not, I do not know.
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I totally 'get' the Jam, & realise that Weller is a true talent, but I never really got into that stuff at all*. The drummer with the Style Council (Steve White) and I had the TWO same drum teachers. There, the similarity ends LoL. He's not driving a Cab :) * I'm jazz/fusion and straight-ahead Jazz.
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I have a hunch that he had some sort of connection with the proto Worshipful Company of Musicians, which pre-dates its first Charter of 1500.
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Having hurriedly popped-by Google, I am now in a position to offer you huge congratulations !