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Coachlines - July 2024
27.07.24 Assistant Lyn Litchfield
Meet the Team – Communications Committee
How time flies. It seems only yesterday when I launched this new feature “Meet the Team” in Coachlines. It has now reached its 10th and final edition, and it’s the Communications Committee’s turn to introduce ourselves. The title of our […]
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Coachlines - July 2024
27.07.24 The Clerk
Please help the next Master, subject to election, ‘Escape from the Tower’
On 2nd September the Master Coachmaker for 2024/25 will be elected and installed after a rigorous selection process and democratically robust election. Spoiler Alert: the chances are that the successful candidate will be Steve Fitz-Gerald, the current Senior Warden. However, […]
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Coachlines - July 2024
27.07.24 Renter Warden David Barrett
Introducing our new Civic Team of the City 2024-25
Following the election of Sheriffs at Common Hall on 24th June for the ensuing year, the successful candidates were joined by the Senior Alderman Below The Chair for a photo shoot in Guildhall Yard. The presumptive Lord Mayor, subject to […]
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Coachlines - July 2024
27.07.24 Steward Neil Sheath & Freeman Katherine Keogh
Our bursaries and awards make a real difference
A recent LinkedIn post from one of our bursary recipients really shows how grateful our award winners are for all the support the Livery provides, writes Steward Neil Sheath. Katherine Keogh made this post entirely of her own volition and […]
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Coachlines - July 2024
27.07.24 Steward Roger Woodbridge
British Driving Society Show 2024
Could there be a more perfect way to spend a day than enjoying a Champagne picnic while watching the cream of Britain’s coach and horses being driven around three show rings at Windsor Great Park? First to arrive was Junior […]
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Coachlines - July 2024
27.07.24 Liveryman Adrian Smith
Livery welcomes new members at Summer Court
Elected Members Sworn as Freemen Freeman Hugo Cowley Hugo lives in Honiton, Devon. He attended Exeter College and Kingston University completing a Foundation Degree in Aeronautical Engineering. This was then followed by a period at the Flybe Training Academy achieving […]
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Coachlines - July 2024
27.07.24 Renter Warden David Barrett
The road more or less travelled: a Nordic journey
In this instance, a ‘sea more or less travelled’ is more accurate, as Renter Warden David Barrett embarks on a journey covering three Nordic countries – Sweden, Finland and Denmark. The history of the Baltic Sea is dominated by a […]
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Coachlines - June 2024
28.06.24 The Master Bettine Evans
Master’s message June 2024
Good day fellow Coachmakers. I do hope you are all well and enjoying this wonderful taste of summer. As usual, so much has happened since we last spoke. My husband and I managed to escape to Scotland for a few […]
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Coachlines - June 2024
28.06.24 Assistant Lyn Litchfield
A letter from the Editor – June 2024
Dear readers, This June, we commemorated the 80th anniversary of the D-Day Landings. It was one of the most humbling moments in my life, facing Omaha Beach, with the American Cemetery behind me. The beach was golden, the white crosses […]
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Coachlines - June 2024
28.06.24 The Clerk
Clerk’s Notes – June 2024
And now, the end is near, and so I’ll face the final curtain. But not yet. And as this is only my penultimate Coachlines I shall retain the more traditional approach. On 28th June 1977, the Silver Jubilee Review of […]
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Coachlines - June 2024
28.06.24 Assistant Graeme Hunt & Liveryman Alastair Boyes
Meet the Team: Sports Section – Golf and Shooting
Pictured above: Secretary Alex Wrighton and Captain Graeme Hunt, planning strategy for further golfing events Golf has been an integral part of the Coachmakers’ sporting arena for many years, and we have many associations with other Livery Companies as well, […]
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Coachlines - June 2024
28.06.24 Liveryman Nick Lyford
Our support for Heritage Skills apprentices
Each year the Charity Committee allocates funds to support five young apprentices from the Heritage Skills Academy (HSA). (More about the Academy itself in a future edition of Coachlines). The bursaries made are primarily for travel and subsistence when on […]
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