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Bermondsey tanners. The Master, Wardens and Comonalty of the Art or Mistery of Tanners of the Parish of St Mary Magdalen Bermondsey of Surrey. Motto. Planto Velieris In Tergus In Vermundesei - "Make Hide Into Leather In Bermondsey". Location. Suite 59 Centre Point, Rolls Road, Bermondsey, London SE1 5NX. Date of formation. 1703 with Royal Charter.
Bermondsey, London. , England. Barrow Hepburn & Gale is a British luxury leather goods manufacturer best known as the producer of the despatch boxes used by the Government of the United Kingdom. It was founded in 1760 as Hepburn and Sons. The company also makes Royal Maundy purses, for which it was granted a royal warrant in 1968. [1][2][3]
The tawse, sometimes formerly spelled taws (the plural of Scots taw, a thong of a whip), is an implement used for corporal punishment. It was used for educational discipline , primarily in Scotland , but also in schools in a few English cities e.g. Newcastle upon Tyne , Gateshead , Liverpool , Manchester and Walsall .
The 1889 London dock strike was an industrial dispute involving dock workers in the Port of London. It broke out on 14 August 1889, and resulted in victory for the 100,000 strikers when they won their pay claim of sixpence per hour, the so-called "dockers' tanner". The industrial action also established strong trade unions amongst London ...
Website. curriers.co.uk. The Worshipful Company of Curriers is one of the ancient livery companies of London, associated with the leather trade. The curriers, or "curers of leather ", of London formed an organisation in 1272; this merchant guild was recognised in 1415 by Ordinances of the City Common Council before its grant of a Royal Charter ...
12,099 (1954) Affiliations. TUC. The Amalgamated Society of Leather Workers was a trade union representing tanners and workers involved in making leather goods in the United Kingdom. The union was founded in 1872 as the Leeds and District United Tanners' Society. Before the end of the century, it merged with the Leather Finishers' Society ...
The 1976 Benson & Hedges Championships, also known as the Wembley Championships, was a men's tennis tournament played on indoor carpet courts at the Wembley Arena in London in England that was part of the 1976 Commercial Union Assurance Grand Prix circuit and categorized as a Four Star event. The tournament was held from 15 November through 21 ...
Tanbark. Tanbark is the bark of certain species of trees, traditionally used for tanning hides into leather. [1] The words "tannin", "tanning", " tan," and "tawny" are derived from the Medieval Latin tannare, "to convert into leather." Bark mills are horse- or oxen-driven or water-powered edge mills [2] and were used in earlier times to shred ...