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Headstock detail of 1980 Guild D50 Acoustic Guitar. Pay no attention to the thumbprint - at least you can see that I use it! :-)
Courtesy of Phil Barrett BSc Electronic Engineering & Computer Science 1992
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The history of the Vintners' Company is a fascinating story of trade, charity, politics and companionship. Although the medieval, possibly even Saxon, origins of the London guilds remains somewhat unknown, there is absolutely no doubt that in medieval London the livery companies, including the Vintners, exercised immense power in economic, social, political and religious spheres.
The origins of the Vintners' Company, like most Livery Companies, are rather obscure. Before the Norman Conquest, neighbourhood groups would meet in their local church in the case of the Vintners, St. Martin in the Vintry. In medieval London, persons of similar trade lived in the same area and so these local groups soon took on an economic element - the word 'guild' comes from the Anglo-Saxongildanmeaning 'to pay'. There are twelfth century references to 'lawful merchants of London' fixing the price of wine - one of the earliest indications of an official group governing trade.
The Vintners' first charter (15th July, 1363) was in fact a grant of monopoly for trade with Gascony. It gave far-reaching powers, including duties of search throughout England and the right to buy herrings and cloths to sell to the Gascons.
The wine trade was of immense importance to the medieval economy - between 1446 and 1448, wine made up nearly one-third of England's entire import trade. Since their first charter in 1363, it was the Vintners who presided over this trade. The Vintners' Company was placed eleventh out of the Twelve Great Livery Companies in the order of precedence of 1515.
By the sixteenth century, the Company's importance was in decline. It had lost its religious duties and Edward VI (1553) severely curtailed the Vintners' countrywide right to sell wine. Under the early Stuarts, the Company attempted to regain its importance, but having been involved with Charles I, it suffered in prestige from political attacks and financially from penal taxation when Parliament came to power in the 1640s. The further curtailment of privileges by Charles II and James II badly damaged the Company's influence and the Great Fire of London in 1666 destroyed not only the Hall but also many of its other properties and great financial loss resulted. Although William III and Mary II restored the privileges removed by James II, the Company did not recover its former dominance. In 1725 the duty of search was finally abandoned and fewer members of the Trade were becoming members of the Company.
The Vintners' Company was associated with the other City Companies in James I's scheme for the plantation of Ireland. It owned estates there known as "Vintners' Manor" or "Bellaghy" until 1737 when it sold them subject to a rent charge of £200 p.a. and "a brace of good bucks."
The Livery Companies came under violent political attack during the nineteenth century. Fortunately, the Company was able to show to the Charity Commission and the City of London Livery Companies' Commission that it was caring for its estates and was spending more on its charities than was legally required. It managed even to keep the remnants of its once enormous power, the privilege of selling wine without licence in London, within three miles of its walls and in certain specified ports and thoroughfare towns between London and Dover and London and Berwick. The twentieth century was marked by a steady progress towards the Company's renewed interest in and support for its trade, culminating in the granting of a new Charter on the 20th August, 1973.
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The Vintners of London have possessed a Hall situated between Upper Thames Street and the River Thames since the 15th century, and it is probable that for many years before that time they had occupied the same site and made use of a building there as their Common Hall.
The piece of land on which Vintners' Hall stands was bequeathed to the Vintners' Company in the will of Guy Shuldham, citizen and Vintner of London, dated 7 November 1446. The property is described in his will as follows: 'A great hall with kitchen and house for coals to be put in, and a pantry and a buttery and a void piece of land called the yard with a well and also a parlour above leaded and a counting house two chambers above the said house'. Shuldham also mentions '13 little mansions' on the site, which, he stated, were to provide homes for 13 poor and needy men and women of the said craft which their worldly goods by God's visitation and adverse fortune casually have lost and become very needy'. These 'mansions' became the Company's almshouses that were burnt down in the Great Fire and are now located at Eastbourne. Little is known about the appearance of the medieval Vintners' Hall as no plans or illustrations of it appear to survive. The building is believed to have been largely of timber but some parts, probably including the cellars, were of brick. The roof was tiled and the windows were glazed. There was a brass weather vane and a painted sundial on the outside of the Hall but it is not known where these were.
Information about the interior of the Hall is similarly limited -many rooms are named in the records but it is not known how large they were or in what position they stood relative to one another or to the yard. The earliest Hall inventory, which appears at the end of the accounts for 1546-8, gives a similar list of rooms to those described in Guy Shuldham's will. During the next hundred years, various architectural alterations and elaborations were made, such as stained glass windows and piped water.
Vintners' Hall and the almshouses were burnt down during the night of Sunday 2 September 1666, less than 24 hours after the Great Fire of London had broken out in Pudding Lane some 600 yards away. The Company officers had sufficient warning to enable them to remove some of the contents of the Hall, including the plate and Company's records, but nothing more could be done. On the morning of 3 September it seems that only some chimney stacks remained standing among the rubble that had once been Vintners' Hall.
The Company was to be without a meeting place for almost five years and during this period the meetings of the Court took place in City taverns which had escaped the fire. The rebuilding of the Hall was financed in a variety of ways: subscriptions were collected, the Company's fees were raised, heavy fines were imposed on members who wished to postpone taking the livery or who were unwilling to hold office and most of the Company's plate and even the rubble of the old Hall were sold. In addition the Company was able to meet some of the cost of the rebuilding from its own funds and from its Irish rents but even so the treasurer, John Billingsley (landlord of 'The Bell' in St Nicholas' Lane), complained of being 'much out of purse in carrying on the building of the Hall'.
The actual construction of the new Vintners' Hall took place in the 1670s. The new Vintners' Hall was a much larger and more magnificent structure than its predecessor. The committee acted in conference with the various master craftsmen engaged on the work, thus allowing for alterations and modifications to the plans as the building progressed. The plan adopted was to construct two wings at either end of the Hall, which together formed three sides of a square around a courtyard facing the street. The first Court meeting in the new Vintners' Hall was on 6 June 1671 and in June 1675 the Clerk was able to record that 'the buildings are near finished'.
During the 18th century only minor changes and improvements were made at Vintners' Hall, for example the windows were sashed and new iron gates with two lamps were installed. In the late eighteenth century, William Thornton wrote in A New History and Survey of London and Westminster that 'the hall is exceeding handsome and behind it is a garden with a passage to the Thames'. Alterations and elaborations continued to take place according to fashion, technological development and infringements or extensions to the block of land. Various rooms and architectural features were added and removed and the layout of the building was rearranged, although these changes did not affect the heart of the building. Vintners' Hall suffered only superficial damage during the Second World War and since then only subtle modernisation and redesign and careful restoration have taken place.
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Photo by Juli Gulenko
Friday night, 23,.2.18.
The similarity between any model and any local photographer is entirely accidental.
This is my no.8 image in Yateley Camera Club's 2018 "52" project.
Mike Zadorojny, Colin Johanson, Jonathan Sharp, Isaiah Cartwright, and Eric Flannum onstage at the GW2 Design Panel during PAX 2011.
Photos taken at the East Bay Modern Quilt Guild - June 2013 Meeting at A Verb for Keeping Warm in Oakland, CA.
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Zaboo and Codex approach resident homeless man and Guild utility player Kenny. Spot him in the party scenes later in season 2.
I was lucky enough to help out by demonstrating beadwork on The UK Beadworkers Guild Stand at the 'Make It' Craft Show at Farnborough on 26th February 2010. There was also an area where we ran little workshops teaching spiral rope. It was a lot of fun meeting and chatting to fellow beaders and trying to convert non-beaders!
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Eaurios, pearl of the Ocean
Oceans are dangerous and deep so there aren't many people who are facing them. But if they do, they could reach Eaurios. Suprisingly in the middle of the Ocean east to Mitgardia there is shallow water. When they would succeed to pass the treacherous water and creatures in the shallows they'll find the grand forrests of Eaurios. The giant salt water trees and plants there are magnificant and provide the people everything they need. Like food, wood and even shelter because the trees are hollow. And what the trees can't provide the ocean does!
History
Stories say the citizens from Eaurios came from the oceans further east and that they are descendens of an elvish race. They were seeking treasures but found the forrests instead. They were struck by the beauty of it and decided to stay. Since then Eaurios is a thriving land were people live in harmony with nature. Rarely they visit the coasts of Mitgardia and Nocturnus because what business will they be seeking there when having already found the Pearl of the Ocean.
Guild name: Eaurios
Guild Location: A 10 day swim away from the East coast of Mitgardia
Capital and Ruler: Rifidem ruled by Eshreï Amthibius
Unique characteristics: It is said, the people of Eaurios can swim faster than a man can row. Altough never confirmed because you rarely see one, they do grow up surrounded by water and when travelling they say a day swim instead of a day sailing or walking.
A fan took photos of ArenaNet staffers with his Game Boy camera, printed out the portraits with his Game Boy printer, and then stuck them in his copy of the Art of Guild Wars 2. Clever!
My beadwork is actually in a book!
I'm on page 194, 'Japanorama'.
The book was produced to celebrate the 10th Anniversary of The UK Beadworkers Guild. There is some fantastic work included, truly inspirational!