Fan Makers' Company - Lakeside Terrace, Barbican, London, UK
N 51° 31.177 W 000° 05.673
30U E 701569 N 5711613
This City of London blue plaque is attached to the south east end wall of Defoe House at the north western end of the Lakeside Terrace in the Barbican complex in London. This area is accessible to the general public.
Waymark Code: WMKT58
Location: London, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 05/26/2014
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The text on the blue plaque reads:
City of London
The Fan Makers'
Company
met in their
Common Hall in
Red Cross Street
to adopt their
constitution in 1710
The Fan Makers' Company website tells us:
Welcome to the Website of the Worshipful Company of Fan Makers. Incorporated in 1709 during the reign of Queen Anne but very active as the Guild of Fan Makers from at least the reign of Charles II, today’s Fan Makers’ Company is the youngest of the ‘old’ City Livery Companies being the last to receive a Royal Charter for nearly 300 years and becoming the 76th Livery Company in order of precedence. Those that have followed have usually been incorporated by the City alone.
The Company, like other Livery Companies, is one of those sturdy oaks rooted in the past but maintaining its strength through new ideas and adaptation, in our case to the exciting technology of the aerospace age and renewing its freshness year by year.