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Events

Welcome to our Annual Banquet

The Master, Tom Flood was pleased to welcome members and guests to our 2026 Annual Banquet in the Tallow Chandlers’ Hall. Our principle guest and speaker was Gavin Starks, Founder & CEO, Icebreaker One.  During the evening we were entertained by music from the acclaimed harpist, Emilia Agajew. Before the…...

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More fish in the Thames, and they are different!

110 fish including four conger eels, dogfish, eels and bass were caught in four hours along the Thames at Gravesend by teams of anglers from local clubs and schools. The species and size of each fish was recorded before they were returned to the river. Measuring an eel is not…...

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CHANGE BEHAVIOR – LIVE IN HARMONY WITH NATURE

Global behaviour will only change so that mankind can live in harmony with nature if policy-makers and society at large take a positive approach: “Change comes not from despair but from community and engagement,” in the words of one speaker at the 2026 City Environment Debate. But the scale of…...

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Congratulations to Alderman Bronek Edmund Masojada on his election as Lord Mayor

(The picture is of the Lady Mayor, the Lord Mayor-Elect and the two Sheriffs.) Members of the Company attended one of the most significant events in the City of London calendar.  The meeting of Common Hall attended by Masters and Liverymen in the Guildhall is a superb occasion.  During the…...

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A TRADITION OLD AND NEW – THE ANNUAL WOOLMEN SHEEP DRIVE

On Sunday 27 September a select flock of Water Conservators (including Court Assistants Dinah Nichols and Brett Bader and Freeman Liam Hogg) exercised their right as Freemen of the City of London to drive an equally select flock of Yorkshire sheep over Southwark Bridge. This ancient tradition dates from the…...

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Michaelmas Court Lunch

(Featured image is of Professor Chris Baines.)   Before the lunch in the modern Founders’ Hall in the City of London, the Master, Tom Flood, introduced the prize winners from the Royal Air Force AIDU, the digital mapping unit, at RAF Northolt, supported by the Company. Air Cartographer of the…...

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Welcome to our new Court Assistant, Liveryman and Freemen

At the Michaelmas meeting of the Court in the Founders’ Hall the Master, Tom Flood, was pleased to welcome and instal our newest Court Assistant Lina Nieto Pacheco. At the end of the Court meeting the Master admitted to the Livery, Mark Lumsdon-Taylor, and admitted three new joiners as Freemen,…...

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Swan Upping

Members of the Company had a great morning out on the River Thames to watch the Swan Upping.  Our grateful thanks to Georgina Hall for organising the cruise, which started at Caversham Bridge near Reading.  We were joined by another boat hosting members of the Vintner’s Company and small boats…...

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Presentation of Thames Water

The Master, Tom Flood, and Walbrook Warden, Neil Reynolds, accompanied by Past Master, Martin Bigg, and Court Assistant, Trevor Harrington, supported by our Clerk, Chris Millett, meet the Lady Mayor, Susan Langley, and her Consort, Garry Langley, at the Mansion House.  The Master presented her with an inscribed Dartington Glass…...

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Stopping the accelerating decline of our rivers

Population growth, lack of investment, focus on reducing costs – the decline of our rivers has accelerated.  In response – proposals to rearrange the regulatory deck chairs. Baroness Barbara Young challenged us all at the Installation Lunch of the Worshipful Company of Water Conservators in the Ironmongers’ Hall in the…...

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