Synopsis

Tours start in the Gold Drawing Room where our guide gives a talk on the past and present activities of Livery Companies in general and the Armourers and Brasiers in particular as well as the history of armour and its role in medieval warfare.  He also talks about the history of our present Hall, one of the few to have escaped the Blitz. Tours then visit the Library, the Court Room and the Livery Hall in turn and in each of which the guide provides guidance on artefacts of particular note (portraits – most notably perhaps the infamous Ann Vavasour and her chequered love-life -  armour, clocks etc.)  Questions are encouraged and photographs (for personal not professional use) allowed.