Another successful season for the Horners’ golfing fraternity, with 23 members and numerous guests participating in 20 fixtures including our Spring and Autumn meetings, matches against other Livery Companies (Tin Plate Workers, Actuaries and Barber-Surgeons), participation in our own inter-Livery tournament (The Horners’ Trophy), other Company golf tournaments (Marketors’, Loriners’, Tallow Chandlers’, Airline Pilots’ & Navigators’, Fuellers’ and Carmen), special Livery events such as Prince Arthur Cup at Walton Heath,…
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On 18th May the Horners were represented at the Inter Livery Clay Shooting day at the magnificent Holland & Holland Shooting Ground in West London by three teams, one consisting of Lynn Walters, John Roll-Pickering and myself with a guest, one team consisting of Charles Bettinson and guests and one from the long standing Hazeley shooting friends of the Horners. The day was a typical May spring day; torrential rain,…
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The Horners are, we believe, the only Livery Company with its own choir. Its gestation began in 1985 at the Election Service of that year, when Court Assistant (now Past-Master Emeritus) Jeremy Cartwright sang alone in the organ loft of St. James Garlickhythe.
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Every year on the first Monday in March the Inter-Livery Bridge Competition takes place, , when an evening of duplicate bridge is played in the splendid surroundings of Drapers’ Hall. The Company regularly enters a team led by Past Master Ray Anstis. The team have a good record in the Competition and twice in recent years have come second (out of the 60 pairs who take part).
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