Monmouth Gallery
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Haberdashers' Monmouth Schools.
Haberdashers' Monmouth School for Girls. |
Monmouth: View from the High School. (Now HMSG)
Pre 1918 (1/2d post) |
Monmouth from the air. (Aerofilms/Photo-Precision Ltd.)
From the same series (683X) as a photo in Monmouth Museum that they have dated c1950. HMSG top left. |
Haberdashers' Monmouth School for Girls. 1903 |
Monmouth. New Cottage Hospital and High School [and Old Gaol]. Postmark 1905 |
Girls' High School, Monmouth. |
Monmouth from Hereford Road (HMSG).Photo by WA Call, The County Studio, Monmouth. |
Monmouth Grammar School, School Library. (Now [Haberdashers'] Monmouth School.) |
Grammar School and Wye Bridge, pre A40 dual carriageway. |
Haberdashers' Aske's Schools.
Robert Aske (1619-1689) left a legacy of £32,000 to form the Haberdashers' Aske's Foundation. The foundation's first school was built in Hoxton in 1690. The building was replaced on the same site in 1824, the school being further enlarged in 1874. Two further schools were built at Hatcham in 1875. In 1898 the original Hoxton site was sold and the school moved to sites in Hampstead and Acton. The schools are now at Elstree.
Mrs Jill Harvey, an Old Girl of Acton Habs, tells me that Miss Dorothy L. Sayers, the seminal writer of detective yarns (and also eminent religious theologian) was for a short period teacher at Acton Habs Girls. (This was in the 20s when Miss Sprules was headmistress.)
Haberdashers' Alms Houses, Hoxton. 1828 |
Haberdashers' Aske's School, (Girls') Acton. (Pre 1918) |
The Haberdashers' (Aske's) Girls' School at Hatcham. (Now part of Haberdashers' Aske's Hatcham College
)Postmark 1904. |
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Haberdashers' Aske's Medal. (Recto) |
(Verso.) |
Haberdashers' School, Acton |
Haberdashers' Company.
The Haberdashers' Company is one of the 12 great livery companies of the city of London. The company can trace it roots back to 1371.
The following is taken from the Illustrated London News, November 15th 1884. (Author's collection.)
LONDON CITY GUILDS: HABERDASHERS. The Company of "Hurrers and Milaners" (the second name derived from their dealing in Milan wares, has been perverted into that of "Milliners," usually applied now to female artificers of the lighter articles of ladies' apparel) was incorporated in the City of London in 1448, by a charter of King Henry VI. The hatters' craft was subsequently united with those of the fraternity, which in 1501, by a new charter from Henry VII., assumed the title of Merchant Haberdashers, and obtained rank with the great Companies, the Goldsmiths, Fishmongers, Merchant Taylors, Mercers, Drapers, Grocers, and Skinners. The Charters were confirmed by all the Tudor Sovereigns, and were enlarged by Queen Elizabeth in 1578. St Catherine was the religious patroness of this Company, which had works of piety and charity to perform, as well as to superintend a very miscellaneous range of trades and manufactures, comprising not only various adjuncts of dress for men and women of fashion, but also swards and daggers, knives, spurs, glasses, toothpicks, shoeing-horns, and mousetraps. Many bequests of land and houses in the City, and sums of money to be invested, given in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, provided trust funds to bestow small pensions on the poor of different London parishes, on the relief of prisoners in Newgate and Ludgate jails, the maintenance of preachers and lecturers, the purchase and endowment of Church livings, the founding of scholarships at Oxford and Cambridge Universities, and the establishment of free schools, which exist at Hoxton and Hatcham (Robert Aske's Foundation), and in Bunhillrow, at Monmouth, at Bunbury in Cheshire, and in other places. The Company has the patronage of eight Church livings and of four lectureships, including that at St Giles's, Cripplegate, on Sundays and Thursdays. The schools at Hoxton, erected by the fund which Robert Aske, in 1688, instructed to this Company, amounting to £20,000, give instruction to 600 day-scholars, half of the boys, half of them girls; and Aske's schools at Hatcham are likewise of extensive local benefit. The total number of scholars obtaining the advantage of this Company's assistance is reckoned at 2000. The trust income, comprising a great variety of specifies charities, is estimated in the aggregate at £31,799. The corporate income is £9032, with £1442 from fees and fines; the expenditure, for maintenance of the hall, officers' salaries, holding of Courts, attendance fees at Courts and Committees, dinners and luncheons wines and spirits, gratuities and donations, exhibitions and grants, and Lord Mayors Day expenses, amounts to £7845. The Master of the Company, elected Nov. 24, last year, is Alderman Sir F.W. Truscott; there are four Wardens and a numerous Court of assistants.
Haberdashers' Hall, in Gresham-Street [EC2, near St Paul's], was built by Sir Christopher Wren [1632-1723] upon the site of the ancient hall destroyed by the Fire of London [1666], and was restored and decorated, from the designs of Mr Snooke, the Company's architect, about 20 years ago. [1864] We present some Illustrations of the interior of the Hall, the Ladies' Gallery, Court-room, and staircase, and of the valuable plate, including a salt-cellar, the work of Benvenuto Cellini. There is also a collection of portraits in the Hall.
The second and third volumes of the Report of the Royal Commission of Inquiry upon the City Companies, or Guilds, were published last week. The majority of the Royal Commissioners - Lord Derby, the Chairman, the Duke of Bedford, Lord Sherbrooke, the Lord Chief Justice, Sir Sydney Waterlow, (till recently an Alderman of the City of London), Mr. Pell (a Conservative), Mr. Walter James, Mr. Firth, and Mr. Burt - have agreed upon a scheme of legislation with respect to the Companies, which the Government is understood to have adopted. They find that the property of the Companies is worth fifteen or twenty millions of money. They have an income of upwards of £700,000 a year; halls, alms-houses, schools, and other public buildings, which are rated at between £70,000 and £80,000 a year; plate and furniture worth £350,000; and livings in their gift of the annual value of £12,000 a year. Of this vast income £200,000 is appropriated to the support of about 1000 charities, "in the benefits of which almost every county in England participates." All except this sum the Companies absolutely own. This property has increased largely within the last forty, very largely within the last ten or fifteen years, and is still increasing. The Commission has proceeded on the assumption that it is public property, and, taking into consideration also the obsolete character of many of the trusts administered by the Companies, it has recommended the appointment of a Commission armed with powers like those of the two Universities Commissions, which shall, among other things, allocate to "objects of acknowledged public utility" a considerable percentage of the incomes of all the Companies, and which also has power to declare new trusts wherever, owing to change of times, the charities are thought to have become useless.
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Haberdashers' Hall. From The Illustrated London News. Nov 15 1884. |
Haberdashers' Hall. Maiden Lane [Now Gresham Street]. 1811. |
The first Haberdashers' Hall was built in 1461 and was located on the corner of Staining Lane and Maiden Lane (now Gresham Street) and subsequently destroyed in the Great Fire of London in 1666. A replacement Hall was built on the same site between 1667-71 and was designed by Edward Jerman (who had worked in the City with Sir Christopher Wren). This hall stood until 29th December 1940 when it burnt down after an air raid.
The third Hall was opened in June 1956. In 1996 this site was redeveloped and the Company moved to temporary offices in Bartholomew Close, EC1, while it acquired a new site in West Smithfield on which its new Hall, designed by Michael Hopkins and Partners, has been built. The current Haberdashers' Hall, the fourth, was opened in 2002 a short walk from the original Maiden Lane/Gresham Street site.
The Great Fire in the City - Ruins of Haberdashers' Hall
The Illustrated London News of 1864.
Monmouth, Monmouthshire.
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CN Ballinger bottle. Pont-Mynwy, Monmouth. |
CN Ballinger. Mineral Water. |
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