The Worshipful Company of Basketmakers

<body background="newgray.jpg" style="font-family: Comic Sans MS" bgproperties="fixed"> <h2 align="center"><font face="Comic Sans MS">Welcome to the website of</font><br> <font face="Comic Sans MS">The Worshipful Company of</font><br> <font face="Comic Sans MS">Basketmakers</font></h2> <p align="center"><img border="0" src="Crest03.jpg" width="489" height="397"></p> <p align="center">The Worshipful Company of Basketmakers was constituted by the Court of Aldermen in 1569, granted a livery of thirty in 1825 (recently extended to five hundred) and received its Royal Charter from George VI in 1937. <br> <br> The senior officer in the Company is known as Prime Warden.<br> <br> The company was formed to regulate and control the basketmaking trade in the City of London and by an order of Common Council in 1463 trade was concentrated in the manor of Blanche Appleton, in the area of the present Guild Church.<br> <br> For more information contact the Clerk to the Company <br> <br> Roger de Pilkyngton BA,<br> 108, Garstang Road West<br> Poulton le Fylde<br> Lancashire FY6 7SN<br> Telephone : 01253 885776 Fax: 01253 886533<br> e.mail: <a href="mailto:clerk%40basketmakersco.org"> clerk@basketmakersco.org</a><br> </p> <p align="center"> <small><a href="index.html" target="_top">Home</a></small> </p> </body>