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Coat of arms of Middlesex, 1910-1965 (absorbed into Greater London) Coat of arms of London County Council , 1914-1965 Coat of arms of the Greater London Council , 1965-1986
The Gladstone Arms is a public house in Lant Street in the Borough – the Southwark district of London. It is also known as The Glad . Built on the site of a Victorian pub, the current building was constructed in the 1920s.
Arms of the Metropolitan Borough of Southwark granted 14th June 1902 by the College of Arms Source: A.C. Fox-Davies, The Book of Public Arms (T. C. & E. C. Jack, London, 1915) File usage The following 3 pages use this file:
The vintners of London formed a guild as early as the twelfth century and received their first royal charter in 1363. [2] This granted far-reaching powers including duties of search throughout English dominions and the right to buy herrings and cloth to sell to the Gascons.
The White Hart Inn was a coaching inn located on Borough High Street in Southwark. [1] The inn is first recorded in 1406 but likely dates back to the late fourteenth century as the White Hart was the symbol of Richard II. [2] At the time Southwark was separate from the City of London north of the River Thames.
The company obtained a grant of arms from the College of Arms in January 1672. In 1766, the Court of Aldermen granted the company its livery. The number of liverymen was originally limited at sixty but has been increased in number over the years by approval of the City of London Corporation and currently stands at a maximum of three hundred.
English: ARMS: Gules on a Cross Argent a Well Head between four Cinquefoils Gules on a Chief chequy Or and Vert a Lymphad sail furled Sable and a Rose Gules barbed and seeded proper.
The vestry of St John Horsleydown proposed naming the boroughs as "Southwark St Saviour's" and "Southwark St Olave's", a suggestion supported by the London County Council. [5] A decision was finally made on 25 January 1900, with the western borough becoming "Southwark" and the eastern borough as Bermondsey. [6]