City Livery Club
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| Founded | 1914 |
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| Home Page | www.cityliveryclub.com |
| Address | Bell Wharf Lane, Upper Thames Street, London EC4R 3TB |
| Clubhouse occupied since | 2010 |
| Club established for | The City City of London The City of London is a small area within Greater London, England. It is the historic core of London around which the modern conurbation grew and has held city status since time immemorial. The City’s boundaries have remained almost unchanged since the Middle Ages, and it is now only a tiny part of... |
| Club motto | Uniting the Livery, promoting fellowship |
The City Livery Club is a Members-only Club located in London
London
London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
, which was established in June 1914. It is currently based at Bell Wharf Lane, Upper Thames Street, in the City of London
City of London
The City of London is a small area within Greater London, England. It is the historic core of London around which the modern conurbation grew and has held city status since time immemorial. The City’s boundaries have remained almost unchanged since the Middle Ages, and it is now only a tiny part of...
on a site by Southwark Bridge which overlooks the River Thames.
The Club was founded "to bind together in one organization liverymen
Liveryman
For Livery Companies in the City of London, a Liveryman is a full member of their respective Company.Livery Company members fall into two basic categories: Freemen and Liverymen. One may join as a Freeman, and thereby acquire the "Freedom of the Company", upon fulfilling the Company's criteria...
of the various guilds in the bond of civic spirit, in service to the Ancient Corporation and in the maintenance of the priceless City Churches," and serves primarily as a social and lunching club for those working in the City. While membership was originally open only to Liverymen of the City of London, it has since grown to include Liverymen and Freemen of City Livery Companies
Livery Company
The Livery Companies are 108 trade associations in the City of London, almost all of which are known as the "Worshipful Company of" the relevant trade, craft or profession. The medieval Companies originally developed as guilds and were responsible for the regulation of their trades, controlling,...
, as well as assorted categories of Associate Membership. The incumbent Lord Mayor of London
Lord Mayor of London
The Right Honourable Lord Mayor of London is the legal title for the Mayor of the City of London Corporation. The Lord Mayor of London is to be distinguished from the Mayor of London; the former is an officer only of the City of London, while the Mayor of London is the Mayor of Greater London and...
is automatically elected Patron
Patrón
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of the Club.
It has led something of a peripatetic existence, occupying the Royal de Keyser Hotel on the Victoria Embankment
Victoria Embankment
The Victoria Embankment is part of the Thames Embankment, a road and river walk along the north bank of the River Thames in London. Victoria Embankment extends from the City of Westminster into the City of London.-Construction:...
from 1914 to 1923. It then moved to Williamson's Hotel on Bow Lane, Cheapside
Cheapside
Cheapside is a street in the City of London that links Newgate Street with the junction of Queen Victoria Street and Mansion House Street. To the east is Mansion House, the Bank of England, and the major road junction above Bank tube station. To the west is St. Paul's Cathedral, St...
until 1927, when it moved to the Chapter House in St Paul's Churchyard. This site was bombed during the Blitz
The Blitz
The Blitz was the sustained strategic bombing of Britain by Nazi Germany between 7 September 1940 and 10 May 1941, during the Second World War. The city of London was bombed by the Luftwaffe for 76 consecutive nights and many towns and cities across the country followed...
in 1940, and temporary lodgings were occupied in Butcher's Hall, Bartholomew's Close between 1941 and 1944 until that to was bombed. Its postwar situation was somewhat more permanent, with the 1944 move to Sion College
Sion College
Sion College, in London, is an institution founded by Royal Charter in 1630 as a college, guild of parochial clergy and almshouse, under the 1623 will of Thomas White, vicar of St Dunstan's in the West....
on the Victoria Embankment. The 1996 closure of much of the college meant that new premises had to be found in the Insurance Hall, Aldermanbury, and the Club moved again to the Baltic Exchange at St Mary Axe in 2003. The Club is now based in the premises of the Little Ship Club by Southwark Bridge and overlooking the Thames.