Our Annual Banquet is the highlight of the Company’s year and by kind permission of the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor, it was once again held in the magnificent Mansion House, London, after having to miss a year in 2020 due to Covid-19. This year on Thursday 7th October, it was our pleasure to welcome Alderman Dr Sir Andrew Parmley and Lady Wendy Parmley representing the Lord Mayor who was…
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Once a year members of the Worshipful Company of Woolmen exercise the traditional right of Liverymen to drive sheep over London Bridge into the City and this year a group of Horners joined them. After exercising their right they all received their certificates before heading off for brunch.
We have an extensive collection of antique items fashioned out of horn most of which are housed at the Museum of Design in Plastics (MoDiP) which is part of the Arts University in Bournemouth. On 26th August a party of Horners travelled to Bournemouth to view our collection. The night before the Master hosted a dinner at the Royal Bath Hotel in Bournemouth for those staying the night prior to…
Liveryman Glenn Beall, is also a Master Collector & Historian of the Honourable Company of Horners (www.hornguild.org), an organisation dedicated to the Research, Preservation and Education of Horn based in the USA. He has recently written an excellent and fully researched article about our Narwhal Horn, sometimes called a Unicorn Horn, for their Horn Book and with his permission you can read it by clicking here It used to be…
