Borough Market & Apprentice Boys: On Saturday twenty first October I went to the 250th anniversary celebrations at Borough Market after which to a march celebrating the closing by apprentices of the gates of Derry to the forces of King James II in 1688 which led to the siege of Derry the next yr. Listed below are my accounts of each occasions from My London Diary in 2006 with just a few minor alterations to make them extra readable and hyperlinks to extra photos on the positioning.
Borough Market: 250th Anniversary – Southwark
Borough Market began with the Romans a few thousand years in the past, and round a thousand years in the past was thriving on and round London’s solely bridge throughout the river Thames. Within the subsequent few centuries it moved a bit south into Borough Excessive Road, and in 1550 obtained a royal constitution, though like all London markets it was below the management of the Metropolis of London.
Elevated congestion in Borough Excessive Road result in the primary of 9 Acts Of Parliament concerning the market’s actions in 1754, which moved it out of the highway just a few yards west to its current website. The settlement with town authorities, which established the brand new market was made 250 years in the past in 1756. Yearly the Lord Mayor of London visits the market and collects fruit for the poor. It’s now the one remaining wholesale and retail market in London.
The market is now formally a charity, however has at all times existed to assist the residents of St Saviour’s Parish. Any surplus made by the market now goes to Southwark Council and the residents of the previous parish get a rebate on their council tax.
The Worshipful Firm of Fruiterers have additionally been celebrating the four-hundredth anniversary of their Royal Constitution in 1605. That they had been inspecting (and levying responsibility) on London’s fruit and veg since 1292 or earlier, and obtained ordinances in 1463.
Till not too long ago, Borough Market was a wholesale market, however its small dimension and transport issues meant that ten years in the past it was virtually empty and in a really poor state. Since then it has grown as a retail website for prime quality food and drinks, with many small specialist suppliers, in addition to different small companies. Two small components of the positioning have been offered to offer cash to rebuild and enhance the market.
The Lord Mayor arrived with a small guard of pikemen and there have been just a few speeches. The fruiterers present recent fruit for numerous shelters for the homeless. The Lord Mayor and his social gathering then toured the market, which had some effective shows of produce in addition to its regular excellent meals.
Apprentice Boys of Derry March – Westminster
The Apprentice Boys Of Derry is a protestant organisation devoted “to sustaining the spirit of liberty” displayed by the 13 apprentices who closed the gates of town to the approaching military of the Catholic King James II in 1688. He demanded that town give up, receiving the now well-known reply “No give up!” The affiliation which now organises parades to commemorate this was based in 1814.
In addition to in Derry itself, there are Apprentice Boys Golf equipment around the globe, and annually there are a number of marches in London. At instances their marches by or by way of largely Catholic areas have been extraordinarily contentious, and the banning of their Portadown march in 1986 led to critical riots. Current occasions in as we speak’s calmer local weather have prompted fewer issues.
The march began close to Victoria Station and went by way of Parliament Sq. to the Cenotaph in Whitehall the place a wreath was laid. I left them at Trafalgar Sq., on their technique to a service on the Unbiased Congregational Church in Orange Road, behind the Nationwide Gallery, adopted by a social night.
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