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not too bad
My cold smoke generator has turned up from China so now Friday night gonna smoke me a side of salmon
(, Wed 25 Nov 2020, 12:52, archived)
tl;dr anal

(, Wed 25 Nov 2020, 13:00, archived)
Youd like the building I'm in , full of history

(, Wed 25 Nov 2020, 13:47, archived)
I can't wait to be able to get out and about around the town again
there's still so much I want to see/take jr to - not least this place at London Bridge:

oldoperatingtheatre.com/

I've been before but not with the nipper. The museum bit is fairly shit but the operating theatre is amazing. They found it bricked up and completely intact not so long ago iirc.

Then Borough Market for gourmet nomz after obv
(, Wed 25 Nov 2020, 13:55, archived)
I'm here, I'm sure if it was touching you'd be chair
www.clothworkers.co.uk/
(, Wed 25 Nov 2020, 14:11, archived)
are we chaired it off the road

(, Wed 25 Nov 2020, 14:16, archived)
Ok

(, Wed 25 Nov 2020, 14:20, archived)
wouldn't it be great if you could delete other people's accounts on here

(, Wed 25 Nov 2020, 15:05, archived)
Fantastic. I love the old livery companies and guilds etc
Hugely powerful back in the day - their control over key London trades meant that Kings and governments etc couldn't fuck around with Londoners in the way they could with citizens elsewhere. It was a key reason why so many people wanted to live here even though it was filthy and full of disease/crooks etc. I think if you made it here you couldn't be done for being an outlaw or something.
(, Wed 25 Nov 2020, 14:59, archived)
or you couldn't be forced to go off to war, something v attractive anyway

(, Wed 25 Nov 2020, 15:00, archived)
I just looked up membership, closed shop unless your family were in it

(, Wed 25 Nov 2020, 15:22, archived)
that's some masons shit right there
You used to be able to get in as an apprentice in the old days
(, Wed 25 Nov 2020, 15:28, archived)
Tbf I dont really understand the membership the website makes it no clearer,

(, Wed 25 Nov 2020, 15:32, archived)
you must be able to be nominated or something surely, there'd be hardly anyone left otherwise

(, Wed 25 Nov 2020, 15:47, archived)
Only 900 members , lol, I dunno , I wont ever be one as this confuses me
www.clothworkers.co.uk/membership/about-our-members/
(, Wed 25 Nov 2020, 15:50, archived)
nope, I'm none the wiser either

(, Wed 25 Nov 2020, 15:57, archived)
I'm there again next week , I'll see if I can get us in, don't really want to do all the charity work tho

(, Wed 25 Nov 2020, 16:14, archived)
yeah fuck that, I'm just hoping there's a free bar and fancy dinners

(, Wed 25 Nov 2020, 16:22, archived)
i bet it's one of those places that don't let women join

(, Wed 25 Nov 2020, 16:25, archived)
actually no, daughters of members are allowed it says


lol members
(, Wed 25 Nov 2020, 16:28, archived)
Nah there is defo some women in the old tapestry and paintings as patrons

(, Wed 25 Nov 2020, 16:29, archived)
Women merchants held considerable political power in Britain as far back as the middle ages
Money, as ever, talks
(, Wed 25 Nov 2020, 16:36, archived)
funny when you realize 'seamstress' used to be a euphemism for prostitute

(, Wed 25 Nov 2020, 16:40, archived)
that I did not know, chz m8

(, Wed 25 Nov 2020, 16:48, archived)
Looking around the place it appears they own most of the areas land still , had one of the vaults open and it's full of gold and silver , there's at least 6 vaults

(, Wed 25 Nov 2020, 15:07, archived)
I've been in the silver vaults in Hatton Garden before
There's some amazing stuff in there but it feels a bit like an antique market more than anything else tbh
(, Wed 25 Nov 2020, 15:14, archived)
These clothworkers must have some money, building a 36 storey tower
www.bdonline.co.uk/news/eric-parry-reveals-plans-for-undershaft-neighbour/5102945.article
(, Wed 25 Nov 2020, 15:21, archived)
bloody hell you're not wrong

(, Wed 25 Nov 2020, 15:27, archived)