Visit to Greenwich
My Master’s Year, with its theme of London’s Markets and World Trade, started with a visit to…
Sheep Drive Across London Bridge
Past Master Robert Alston and his Wife Pat together with John Burbidge-King and a team of overstretched…
World Traders’ Company Air Marshal’s Prize 2016 and 2017
- 03 Aug 2017
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Livery Companies have links to all three services, and the World Traders annually give awards and/or help…
Inge Mitchell Turns 90
One of the longest serving World Traders celebrated her birthday at the Baltic Exchange, to which she…
Cart Marking Ceremony 2017
One of the oldest traditions of the City is the Cart Marking Ceremony, a sort of pre-DVLA…
Visit to Hamburg
When the Kaiser wished to ennoble a Hamburg merchant, his colleagues were puzzled as no noble had…
Jailed and Bailed for the British Red Cross
It was clearly time that the City’s Livery Masters were locked up! The British Red Cross runs…
World Trader Neil Redcliffe Elected Sheriff
The ceremony at Common Hall in Guildhall was a special one for World Traders in that one…
Visit to the Sechseläuten
Last year, Wendy Hyde and I led a small delegation to this annual parade of the Zurich…