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| Badge of the Broad Street Ward Club |
The Company's Hall is located in Broad Street Ward. This is one of the twenty-five administrative sub-divisions of the City of London that have existed since medieval times. In common with all City wards squeezed into the 'square mile' it is a small area. The Hall and the Company's Throgmorton Street, Austin Friars, Drapers' Gardens site is situated in the south-west corner of the ward. Although I may be wrong, as one never knows the full complexity of City landownership, I am fairly certain that the Company's freehold is the biggest in the ward.
Each ward has a Ward Club that brings together people who work in the ward. Broad Street almost certainly has no permanent residents. The only people who regularly spend a night in the ward are the various security staff in the offices and myself in the Master's flat perched under the eaves of the Hall. Details of the Ward Club are at
www.broadstreetwardclub.org/ but at the time I posted this it states it is under construction.
I was invited to the Annual Luncheon of the Ward Club on Monday 29 November. It was held in the Guildhall Crypt. In a City where there are so many interesting and historic spaces to meet the Crypt has a special atmosphere.
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| One of the two principal rooms of the Guildhall Crypt |
The Club entertained us very well and Elizabeth McMahon, the Chairman of the Ward Club kindly mentioned the Drapers, Carpenters and Furniture Makers, the three Companies who have Halls in the Ward playing an essential part in the life of the area.
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