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UPCOMING EVENTS
The Fire Lecture 2013
Following on from the successful Fire Lecture 2012 the wheels have started turning to bring you the Fire Lecture 2013. On Tuesday 23rd April 2013, 6.30pm - 9.00pm at The Insurance Hall.
Please keep this date free in your diaries.
In the meantime if you would like to read the papers of the Fire Lecture 2012 please visit the WcoFF website where you will find a link to the papers.
CHRISTMAS CAROL CONCERT
Members of the Company,
Family, friends and guests are invited to attend
A FESTIVAL OF CHRISTMAS CAROLS
At the church of
St. Mary-le-Bow Cheapside, London EC2 Friday 14th December 2012
At 6.30 p.m.
Featuring Soprano, Suzanne Wilson
Following the Carol Service, members of the congregation are invited to remain in the church to share light refreshment and good company.
There will be no charge for Members of the Worshipful Company and their immediate family: but Members are invited to make a donation in respect of other family members, friends and guests who accompany them as a contribution towards essential costs.
The church of St Mary-le-Bow was completely destroyed in the Great Fire of London in 1666. Its successor was built by Wren between 1670 and 1683. At almost £15,645 it was then the most expensive but also the most important Wren church after St Paul’s Cathedral. Bow bells are probably the most famous in the world and for many hundreds of years have been woven into the folklore of the City of London. In 1392 Dick Whittington heard Bow bells call him back to London to become Lord Mayor; to be born within the sound of Bow bells was the sign of a true Londoner or Cockney; and Bow bell's authority ends the medieval nursery rhyme Oranges and Lemons, 'I do not know says the Great Bell of Bow'
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