Calling Notice Banquet 2015

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ANNUAL LIVERY BANQUET

at

Vintners' Hall,

Upper Thames Street London EC4V 3BG

Thursday 5th

February 2015

7.00pm for 7.30pm, Carriages at 10.45pm

Principal guest speaker: Lord Shipley OBE

John Warren Shipley, Baron Shipley,OBE (born 5 July 1946) is aLiberal Democrat and was created a

Life Peer as Baron Shipley ofGosforth in theCounty of Tyne and Wear on 14 July 2010

The Vintners of London have possessed a Hall situated between Upper Thames Street and the River Thames

since the 15th century, and it is probable that for many years before that time they had occupied the same

site and made use of a building there as their Common Hall.

The piece of land on which Vintners' Hall stands was bequeathed to the Vintners' Company in the will of Guy

Shuldham, citizen and Vintner of London, dated 7 November 1446. The property is described in his will as

follows: 'A great hall with kitchen and house for coals to be put in, and a pantry and a buttery and a void
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piece of land called the yard with a well and also a parlour above leaded and a counting house two chambers

above the said house'. Shuldham also mentions '13 little mansions' on the site, which, he stated, were to

provide homes for 13 poor and needy men and women of the said craft which their worldly goods by God's

visitation and adverse fortune casually have lost and become very needy'. These 'mansions' became the

Company's almshouses that were burnt down in the Great Fire and are now located at Eastbourne. Little is

known about the appearance of the medieval Vintners' Hall as no plans or illustrations of it appear to survive.The building is believed to have been largely of timber but some parts, probably including the cellars, were of

brick. The roof was tiled and the windows were glazed. There was a brass weather vane and a painted

sundial on the outside of the Hall but it is not known where these were.

Vintners' Hall and the almshouses were burnt down during the night of Sunday 2 September 1666, less than

24 hours after the Great Fire of London had broken out in Pudding Lane some 600 yards away. The Company

officers had sufficient warning to enable them to remove some of the contents of the Hall, including the plate

and Company's records, but nothing more could be done. On the morning of 3 September it seems that only

some chimney stacks remained standing among the rubble that had once been Vintners' Hall.

The actual construction of the new Vintners' Hall took place in the 1670s. The new Vintners' Hall was a much

larger and more magnificent structure than its predecessor. The committee acted in conference with thevarious master craftsmen engaged on the work, thus allowing for alterations and modifications to the plans

as the building progressed. The plan adopted was to construct two wings at either end of the Hall, which

together formed three sides of a square around a courtyard facing the street. The first Court meeting in the

new Vintners' Hall was on 6 June 1671 and in June 1675 the Clerk was able to record that 'the buildings are

near finished'.

During the 18th century only minor changes and improvements were made at Vintners' Hall. In the late

eighteenth century, William Thornton wrote in A New History and Survey of London and Westminster that

'the hall is exceeding handsome and behind it is a garden with a passage to the Thames'. Vintners' Hall

suffered only superficial damage during the Second World War and since then only subtle modernisation and

redesign and careful restoration have taken place.

The Vintners' Company's ownership of swans and the annual 'swan upping' which takes place on the Thames

are well-known. The Company's right to own swans is generally said to be 'by prescription'. This specific legal

expression implies that the right has been exercised for so long that it has never been challenged. In theory it

stretches as far back as 'legal memory' itself, fixed by statute as starting from the accession of Richard I in

1189.

It is hoped that all members of the Company will support the Master at this important event if at all

possible. It is an excellent opportunity to entertain guests in this most interesting Hall.

Dress is white tie and tails with decorations but it would not be discourteous to wear a dinner

jacket with black tie and white shirt.


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To: The Clerk

164 Stockbridge Road

Winchester

Hants

SO22 6RW

I shall be able to attend the Livery Banquet at Vintners Hall on Thursday 5th

February 2015

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decorations. It is the Masters wish that the first names of all members and guests should appear on the

guest list and table plan so please supply the details below with yourself on line 1. Tickets for your guests will

be sent to you for dispatch.

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_____________ for __________ tickets at 87.00 each

Alternatively by Bank Transfer. To:- C Hoare & Co, Sort Code 15 99 00, Acc. No. 02254870

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