FAMOUS LONDON BUILDING DESTROYED
(British Official Wireless.l i Iteci'ived February 5. 7.5 p.m.) Hl'GI’Y. February I
Destroyed in the Great Fire of Loudon iu 166(1 and rebuilt from designs by Sir Christopher Wren, the Haberdashers' Hal! was again destroyed by fire during a raid on London in December. Fortunately till the pictures and plate had been removed to a place of safety at the beginning of the war. It is hoped that Hie strongroom, which contained minute books dating from the sixteenth century may be Intact. The Haberdashers Company is thought to have existed for at least a century before its first chapter :n 1448. In the courtroom was a decorated ceiling claimed to be the best, specimen of the kind in the city of London.
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Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 113, 6 February 1941, Page 7
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