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All Hallows has longstanding and active connections with the following livery companies:
The Company of Watermen & Lightermen
The Company of Watermen and Lightermen of the River Thames have long enjoyed a close and warm relationship with the Parish of All Hallows by the Tower. As to precisely when this relationship started is now way back in history but the Company’s Hall at St Mary-at-Hill is alleged at some point to have had a footing within the Parish boundary of All Hallows. The Company donated to the rebuilding of the war damage to the Church and there is a window on the south side that contains the Coat of Arms of the Company. All Hallows has long been regarded as the Church for those who work on the River Thames. In 1962 the Reverend Tubby Clayton, then Vicar of All Hallows and Founder Padre of Toc H, entrusted the Company with responsibility for organising the Knollys Rose Ceremony. He was concerned to ensure a good degree of perpetuity to this ancient custom involving the payment of a fine imposed by the Lord Mayor’s Court on the Knollys family. It consists of a rose cut from Seething Garden. The irony of Seething Garden now belonging to the Corporation of London with the Lord Mayor as its head is not lost on those involved. All Hallows still plays a major role in the ceremony with the Verger carrying the rose on an altar cushion before a procession of the Master and Wardens of the Company and the Clergy and Parishioners of All Hallows. In recent times the Company has been grateful to be able to hold its Annual Service on the Installation of each new Master and its Carol Service at All Hallows. The Company’s Honorary Chaplain is the Archdeacon of London, The Venerable Peter Delaney MBE. The Company looks forward to continuing to play its part in the future of the Parish of All Hallows. Colin Middlemiss Clerk of The Watermen’s Company Back to topThe Worshipful Company of Gardeners
The Mayor and The Aldermen considered the petition, responding “the place aforesaid…..is such a nuisance to the Priests who are singing Matins and Mass… by the scurrility, clamour and nuisance of the gardeners.” Thus the Gardeners were removed to a new sales pitch where they could cause no offence to the good souls of the City. Nowadays the Gardeners are concerned with supporting the education and charity of various gardening and horticultural organisations and societies. There are strong links with the London Children Flower Society, Gardening for the Disabled and with thrive. There is a very active group of Church flower arrangers, who work hard in St. Paul’s Cathedral and in other City churches on a regular basis. In 1948 the Company gave support, with trophies and small cash prizes, to local horticultural and gardening societies within a six mile radius of the City. Then, in 1963, the Company, along with support from the Corporation, created The Flowers in the City Campaign, to help enliven the City with hanging baskets, tubs and flowering gardens in those drab post war years. It was through this link that, in 1968, the acting Vicar of All Hallows by the Tower sought judges for their floral displays in the church during the City Festival. This resulted in Past Master Lord Gainsborough and the Wardens being asked to attend and judge and this they of course did. Thus began an association with All Hallows that led to the appointment in 1984 of its then Vicar, the Ven. Peter Delaney, as the Company’s Chaplain. The Flowers in the City Campaign goes from strength to strength—there is now a Winter and a Summer competition, as well as a Riverside Walk trophy and an Indoor Display trophy. The Company’s links with All Hallows are strong and stable. The present Master, Janet Owen, recently donated a vine from her brother’s vineyard to the Sunday School Bible Garden. Every year our Harvest Festival is held in the Church. The Company decorates the Church with flowers and produce from our gardens. And among our prayers we thank God. Margaret H Prior, Liveryman, The Worshipful Company of Gardeners. Back to topThe Worshipful Company of World Traders
The Company of World Traders was granted livery status by the Court of Aldermen with effect from the 1st January 2000 and has over 200 members. “Commerce and Honest Friendship with all” is the Company motto, taken from Thomas Jefferson’s inaugural Presidential speech in 1801. The Company from its very early days has sought to raise the awareness, understanding, and the standard of practice in world trade. It has combined fellowship, welfare and education with working in the best interests of the trading community of London and overseas. The members retain strong interests in world trade and pursue charitable and educational initiatives through its Charitable Trust. Member’s business interests are diverse and represented in the areas of international brokerage (ships, insurance and finance) importers and exporters of many products and those from the accounting, banking, legal professions who deal with international clients. The Company’s relationship with All Hallows goes back to its foundation in 1985 when the original members were based at the then World Trade Centre in St Katharine’s Dock. Many members have spent most of their careers in the City and recognise the important role of All Hallows over the centuries in the lives of those living and working in London, and especially in Tower Ward. The Venerable Peter Delaney, former Vicar of All Hallows, is a past Master of the Company, and another past Master, Peter Bowring, was a long serving churchwarden. A number of other liverymen play an active part in the affairs of the church, as for example the current Master, William King. The Company’s first Thanksgiving service took place on the 19th July 1995 and was conducted by The Venerable Peter Delaney who is the Honorary Chaplain to the Company. The Thanksgiving Service is an annual event that continues to be held at the church, as is the Christmas Carol service; among the members are some enthusiastic and talented choristers who bring much pleasure to the assembled company. In earlier years, the Company’s Court, its governing body, and committees met in the upper rooms of the church, as well as at 43 Trinity Square. Though they have now outgrown the available space, the World Traders’ friendship and commitment to the work of All Hallows remains as strong as ever. Liveryman Norman Wilson Back to topThe Worshipful Company of Bakers
The Bakers Livery Hall is situated in Harp Lane close to All Hallows where it holds the annual Thanksgiving Service and Christmas Carol Service each year. Lynne Smith Back to topThe Worshipful Company of Carmen
In the Mariner’s Chapel of the church there is a stained glass window dedicated to Mr George Henry Lloyd, (1876-1963), Past Master of the Worshipful Company of Carmen. He was in fact one of those rarities, twice Master, in 1922 and again in 1930. The offices of AC Lloyd Ltd used to be at 3 Tower Hill, next door to The Tiger Tavern, both premises of which survived the Blitz during World War II, unlike All Hallows! George Henry Lloyd was the Chairman of the Company and a friend of the Revd Tubby Clayton, former Vicar of All Hallows. The window was dedicated in a ceremony in September 1965, attended by the Master, Wardens and Members of the Court. Lynne Smith Scite Cito Certo ‘skilfully, swiftly, surely’. The use of the emblems may have originally alluded to the martyrdom of Katherine on the wheel and final death by sword, as St. Katherine was adopted as the Company’s patron saint. The wheel now has no religious significance attached to it. Back to top |
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The boat has always been essential in helping people cross the river Thames, as well as being a means of travel. With only one bridge up until the eighteenth century, boatmen were therefore for hire in great numbers; the lightermen supplying a cargo service and the watermen providing a passenger service.
The Company of Watermen & Lightermen’s licensing powers were transferred to the Port of London Authority in 1908, but it still retains its powers of binding apprentices to learn the trade and the admission of
freemen. 
The first reference to The Gardeners’ Company is found in the Corporation of London’s archives dated August 1345, when the Gardeners of the nobility, clergy and citizens of the City of London petitioned The Mayor, John Hammond, that they may be allowed to sell the produce from their masters’ gardens “where they have been wont in times of old; in front of the Church of St. Austin at the side of St. Paul’s
Churchyard”.
The Worshipful Company of World Traders is one of over 100 Livery companies in the City and though it does not have its own premises, it does consider All Hallows its home.
The bakers were an organised body of workers by the twelfth century and received a royal charter in 1486. They were entrusted with the control of the weight and price of bread as well as the normal activities of a guild. Today the company provides Scholarships and prizes for young people in the baking industry.
It also assisted in raising funds for a replica bakery built at the Ironbridge Museum in Shropshire, a classified World Heritage project. 
The Fraternity of St. Katherine was founded in 1517, for the transportation of goods within the City and to distant towns. In 1668 they were established as the Carmen, but a Charter was not granted until 15th July 1946.