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  The Worshipful Company of Paviors Travel Award
A grant of up to £2,000 from the Worshipful Company of Paviors with matched funding from the Faculty of the Environment of the University of Portsmouth will be made available to successful student(s).
Supporting contacts from the Worshipful Company of Paviors and from the University of Portsmouth will be made available to students so as to gain the maximum benefit from their travel.
The award holder(s) will also be invited to collaborate with the Worshipful Company of Paviors in any publicity events which it plans, which may include a Company Dinner.
www.civl.port.ac.uk /home/wcp_awardinfo.htm   (380 words)

  
  Worshipful Company of Paviors   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
The Worshipful Company of Paviors is one of the Livery Companies of the City of London.
The Paviors were formed at some point prior to 1276; they were responsible for the paving and maintenance of London's streets.
The Company is no longer a trade association for, and a regulator of, London's road constructors, instead acting as a charitable institution.
bopedia.com /en/wikipedia/w/wo/worshipful_company_of_paviors.html   (96 words)

  
 Livery Company - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The 107 Livery Companies are trade associations based in the City of London, each known as the Worshipful Company of the relevant trade or profession.
The Livery Companies originally developed as guilds and were responsible for the regulation of their trades, controlling, for instance, wages and labour conditions.
Among the earliest companies known to have possessed halls were the Merchant Taylors and Goldsmiths in the 14th century, but neither theirs nor other companies' original halls remain; the few survivors of the Great Fire were destroyed, along with many reconstructed ones, during the Blitz.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Livery_Company   (829 words)

  
 Livery Company   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Livery Companies are trade associations based in the City of London.
For instance, the Scriveners' Company regulates and oversees Notaries Public of the City of London.
In 1515, after years of dispute, an order of precedence was settled for the Livery Companies of the time based on the Companies' economic or political power.
bopedia.com /en/wikipedia/l/li/livery_company.html   (530 words)

  
 Worshipful Company of Paviors   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
The Paviors were formed at some prior to 1276; they were responsible for paving and maintenance of London's streets.
The Company is no a trade association for and a regulator London's road constructors instead acting as a institution.
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www.freeglossary.com /Worshipful_Company_of_Paviors   (326 words)

  
 Other Livery Companies
Today’s livery companies are not picturesque leftovers of history but living institutions, whose activities have been commended by successive Royal Commissions and hose liverymen assemble in Common Hall to carry out important functions in the elections of the City’s government and certain of its officers.
In certain companies the officers are known by different titles, for example, the Fishmongers have a Prime Warden instead of a Master, and the number of wardens may vary between two and four according to the size of the company.
The Worshipful Company of GrocersGuildable Manor of Southwark
www.barberscompany.org.uk /links.htm   (1084 words)

  
 Associates
The WORSHIPFUL COMPANY OF FARRIERS was granted its Charter by Charles II on 17th January 1674 although references to a Guild occurred in 1356.
The Arms of the Company include three horseshoes pointing downwwards which may have derived from those of Willian Ferrer, Master of Horse to King William I. The Company may be contacted on their website at: www.wcf.org.uk.
The WORSHIPFUL COMPANY OF JOINERS AND CEILERS was formed in 1375 as a Guild of freemen based on the Parish Church of St James, Garlickhythe.
www.guildofmodelwheelwrights.org /newsite03/guild/associates.html   (1157 words)

  
 Company histories
Kenneth Nicholls Palmer, Ceremonial barges on the river Thames: a history of the barges of the City of London livery companies and of the Crown.
[Paviors] History of the Worshipful Company of Paviors of the City of London.
Published by authority of the Court of Assistants [of the Worshipful Company of Pewterers], 1978.
www.bl.uk /collections/britirish/britcoms.html   (2173 words)

  
 The Worshipful Company of Paviors - Home
The Company - 56th in order of precedence of the City Livery Companies - dates from the 15th century and records of Paviors in the City of London date back to 1276.
Paviors meet quarterly for dinner in one or other of the great Livery Halls in the City of London with colleagues and invited guests.
Paviors' Awards are given for outstanding contribution in the field of Paving or Construction.
www.paviors.org.uk   (297 words)

  
 WELCH CHARLES 1848 1924 (in MARION)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
History of the Cutlers' company of London and of minor cutlery crafts, with biographical notices of early London cutlers.
History of the Worshipful Company of Paviors of the city of London, with brief notices of London streets, their roadways and pavements.
History of the Worshipful company of pewterers of the city of London, based upon their own records; by Charles Welch.
www-catalog.cpl.org /MARION?A=WELCH+CHARLES+1848+1924   (236 words)

  
 News & Events   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Rushes were strewn on the tiled floor, the high table at one end was spread with a thick cloth, and there were other tables, painted, and sideboards, benches draped with covers and padded with cushions, footstools and iron dogs by the hearth.
The Worshipful Company of Paviors hosted a Luncheon at the historic Temple Bar on Thursday 27 October 2005.
The guest, entertained by the Master, Wardens and Clerk of the Paviors Company included Alderman Sir Robert Finch, Sir Christopher Collett, the architect Henry Friedland and Colonel Cohn Ansell of the Temple Bar Trust, enjoyed a luncheon in the magnificent historic splendour to celebrate the successful return of the only surviving City Gateway.
www.thecookandthebutler.co.uk /News_and_Events.htm   (1182 words)

  
 The Worshipful Company of Paviors - Future Company
The Paviors' Company is strongly driven by charitable objectives.
Both the livery movement in general and the Paviors wish to appeal not only to liverymen who have reached the higher levels in the professions and industry but also to men and women who are starting on their chosen career path.
The Company aims to include and encourage participation of liverymen's partners and families in the charitable and social sides of the Company.
www.paviors.org.uk /about/future.aspx   (526 words)

  
 056 - The Paviors' Company   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
On the dexter side a Master Pavior of the reign of Edward I resting the dexter hand on a Measuring Rod and on the sinister side a Pavior of the reign of Edward I holding in the sinister hand a Rammer both proper.
In addition to constructing streets and pavements, the Company was responsible for removing scavenging pigs.
For current contact details please go to The Livery Companies Database, which can be found on The Fishmongers' Company's website.
www.heraldicmedia.com /site/info/livery/livcomps/paviors.html   (155 words)

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