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Coachlines - November 2024
29.11.24 Chair of the City of London Livery Committee Julia Sibley MBE
We will remember them
On Monday 4th November the Livery Committee’s Garden of Remembrance Service took place in the garden of St Paul’s Cathedral. This event, one of the most meaningful and popular in the Livery calendar, was until 2020, organised by the Royal […]
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Coachlines - November 2024
29.11.24 Liveryman David Barrett
Remembrance Sunday Service 2024
Another major event, initiated and organised by the Fruiterers’ Company, is the annual Remembrance Sunday Service, Wreath Laying and March Past for Livery Companies and City dignitaries. The Master Coachmaker, his Clerk and their consorts joined many other company leaders […]
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Coachlines - November 2024
29.11.24 Steward Roger Woodbridge
St James’s Motoring Spectacle celebrates the past, present, and future of motoring
The Master hosted our presence at The St James’s Motoring Spectacle on 2nd November, an inaugural free family-friendly concours in Pall Mall, hosted by The Royal Automobile Club the day before the London to Brighton Vintage Car Run. The St […]
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Coachlines - November 2024
29.11.24 Assistant Eric Wallbank
The road less travelled – where did the Iron Curtain go?
Pictured above: Cesky Krumlov Prague. For a long time, the ‘other side’ of the Iron Curtain – but it’s closer than the top end of Scotland*. So, a road trip was planned: Germany, Czechia and southern Poland, taking us behind […]
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Coachlines - October 2024
31.10.24 Master Stephen Fitz-Gerald
Master’s Message October 2024
The Aiming Points Following on from my message last month, I would like to refresh you all with an overview of the Aiming Points which were established and approved by the Court on 24th March 2022. The Court agreed that […]
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Coachlines - October 2024
31.10.24 Freeman David Barzilay
A letter from the Deputy Editor – October 2024
Last month, Coachlines looked at some of the traditions of the City of London, and this month is no exception. We report on the election of the new Lord Mayor, and Master Stephen Fitz-Gerald and others driving sheep over London […]
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Coachlines - October 2024
31.10.24 The Clerk Lt Col Craig Hallatt
Clerk’s Notes – October 2024
So after what seems like an eternity as your Clerk – a busy but happy seven weeks at that(!) – the next issue of Coachlines is upon us. I have been thinking for a while now how I might weave […]
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Coachlines - October 2024
31.10.24 Steward Neil Sheath
New Lockheed Martin Scholarship Award announced
The Coachmakers’ Charity and Aerospace Awards Committees are pleased to announce the addition of a new scholarship, the Coachmakers’ Lockheed Martin Award to its portfolio of aerospace awards for the current livery year. These awards will mirror current scholarship structures […]
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Coachlines - October 2024
31.10.24 Liveryman Michael Malone
Coachmakers launches transformative mentoring programme
The Coachmakers is proud to announce the launch of our formal mentoring scheme. This is a new initiative, in line with our aims to actively invest in young people, to help our award winners and under-35 Freemen grow and develop […]
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Coachlines - October 2024
31.10.24 Honorary Assistant Lesley Upham
Our new fundraising initiatives are reaping rewards
Fundraising, as The Master has indicated, is high on the company’s agenda for this year and we already have some exciting news. Our recent fundraising campaigns have raised sufficient regular giving commitments to fund an additional award to deliver our […]
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Coachlines - October 2024
31.10.24 Assistant Eric Wallbank
Cars on Mars – STEM engagement at the Brooklands Innovation Academy
Our relationship with Brooklands continues to develop, with the Company taking part in its Innovation Academy for the second year. The Academy is part of the National Science Summer School programme, co-founded in 2012 by Professor Brian Cox CBE OBE […]
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Coachlines - October 2024
31.10.24 Master Stephen Fitz-Gerald
Join us for The Lord Mayor’s Show
Dear Coachmakers, I do hope you can join me at one of the absolute highlights of the Livery year, The Lord Mayor’s Show, writes The Master. This year is all the more special as the newly elected Lord Mayor, Alderman […]
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