Industry and Activity

CITY of GUILDS

Livery companies of the City of London, both ancient and modern.

"Tallow Chandlers, Merchant Taylors, Master Mariners and Air Navigators

Broderers, Brasiers, Painter-Stainers and Glaziers

International Bankers and Virginal Makers..."

FLOODLIGHTING

A list of genuine courses offered in London over the last few years; a tribute to the now extinct course listing magazine, Floodlight.

"...Belly Dancing, Corset Making, Soft Furnishing and Weight Lifting;

  Fat Burning, Food Sculpturing, Calf Rearing and Meat Processing..."

THE TEASEL MAN IS COMING

A tribute to the use of the teasel in the woollen industry, and its 'sales rep', the Teasel Man.

"...The Teasel Man is leaving, with his carders' plant

  For the 'Riley Roller Raiser' can faster raise the yarn

  Like the willower and scribbler, the coner, the twister.."

(This is not the Teasel Man - 

Tis merely a man teasing a teasel,

Tasting the tender tips of its bristles;

He'll render his tongue a-tingling with blisters

So take heed if peckish, and stick well to thistles!)