The Worshipful Company of Woolmen host a long-established charity event, celebrating a City of London Freemans’s ancient “right” to bring sheep to market over the Thames, toll free. Over a thousand Freemen and their guests supported the 2024 event, held 29th September, with all funds raised being in support of the Woolmen Charity and the Lord Mayor’s Appeal. This year’s Sheep Drive took place on ... Read more
Annual Golf match for the Arrow Cup This annual match between the Lightmongers and the Tallow Chandlers Company, for the Arrow Cup, was started over 35 years ago. The trophy presented to the winning team each year, was first presented by Past Master Lightmonger, Stanley Brain of Arrow plastics. This year the competition took place at Beaconsfield Golf Club on 24th September. Our team of ... Read more
South East Reserve Forces and Cadets Association Tuesday 24th September Abingdon School I was asked by our Master Peter McVeigh if I would like to attend this event on his behalf given our links with the Reserve Armed Forces and the cadets. The Lightmongers had been invited to attend through our affiliation with 606 (Chilterns) Squadron Royal Auxiliary Air Force most certainly is not. A ... Read more
Tony Ginman, our Senior Warden, and myself visited TS Wizard last Thursday on one of our summer visits to our cadet detachments. Having visited 56 (Woolwich) Air Cadets a couple of months ago it was time to jump onboard Wizard for a catch up with our Sea Cadets. Once we were signed in by a very efficient cadet on security detail we were ushered into ... Read more
HMS Queen Elizabeth The Lightmongers are honoured to be affiliated with the Royal Navy’s flagship, the aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth and very proud of that affiliation. On 13th September 2024 a party of Lightmongers were privileged, along with other affiliated organisations, to be invited to visit the ship and have a tour and learn about the ship’s operations. They were made most ... Read more
Breakfast at 5.30am at Canary Wharf for the Master was a very early start to the day but well worthwhile to support and enjoy what is one of the most deserving of all causes …. The annual Magical Taxi Tour organised by the Worshipful Company of Hackney Carriage Drivers since 1994. On 20th September 2024 120 Black Cab drivers gave up their weekend to drive ... Read more
On 5th September the Master, Peter McVeigh, was taken to the Tower of London charged with heinous crimes including, invading the City from Yorkshire and being critical of the state of the roads! The Master at Traitors Gate in the Tower of London All of this was of course in support of a good cause, namely raising funds for the tremendous work that ... Read more
The Lightmongers Golf Society team came 2nd in the Prince Arthur Cup Inter-Livery Golf Competition held 16th May 2024 at Walton Heath, which was a fantastic result – congratulations to them. L-R: Greg Jarvis, James Hill, Norman Emery and Thomas Emery The Prince Arthur Cup is the most coveted golf prize in the City inter Livery golf year. It was first introduced in ... Read more
So begins the Ceremony of the Keys at the Tower of London, a 700-year-old ceremony that was attended by over 40 Lightmongers and their guests on the evening of Thursday 11th July along with a private tour of the Tower and a visit to the Yeomans’ Keys Club. Lightmonger members and guests listening to Warder Yeoman, David Coleman. We were fortunate to have ... Read more
Our Summer Banquet this year was held on 5th July and by kind permission of the Lord Mayor, we were able to hold it at the Mansion House in London. As ever, it was a very enjoyable and sociable evening in the wonderful surroundings of the Egyptian Hall of the Mansion House. Dining in the magnificent Egyptian room at Mansion House The evening ... Read more
