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The Worshipful Company of Needlemakers is one of the ancient London Guilds and was given its charter by Oliver Cromwell in 1656.<\/p>\n
The Livery Company is still very active today, their charitable work supporting organisations and individuals associated with the use of needles.<\/p>\n
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1) A group photograph on the occasion of the Worshipful Company of Needlemakers\u2019 visit to Redditch on 23 May. 1946<\/strong><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/www.forgemill.org.uk\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/wcnm02.jpg” show_in_lightbox=”on” align=”center” admin_label=”Image 2L” module_class=”tjborderimg” _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” animation_style=”slide” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text – Caption” _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” text_font=”||on||||||” text_font_size=”90%” text_orientation=”center” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n 2) Mr George Horton signing his name on being made an Honorary Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Needlemakers when the Livery came to Redditch on 23 May 1946. \u00a0Mr Horton joined the company in September 1945 and was previously a needle finisher at Woodfield\u2019s needle factory. From left to right: Mr L Beare, director and secretary of the English Needle and Fishing Tackle Company; Captain H W Dennis, Senior warden of the WCNM; Mr Frank Gibbs Rye, Master of the WCNM; and Mr C D King Farlow, Clerk to the WCNM. 1946<\/strong><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/www.forgemill.org.uk\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/wcnm03.jpg” show_in_lightbox=”on” align=”center” admin_label=”Image 3L” module_class=”tjborderimg” _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” animation_style=”slide” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text – Caption” _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” text_font=”||on||||||” text_font_size=”90%” text_orientation=”center” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n 3) A group photograph of the Worshipful Company of Needlemakers gathering. 1950s<\/strong><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ admin_label=”Section – Back Button” _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” locked=”off” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.16″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” locked=”off” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_button button_url=”https:\/\/www.forgemill.org.uk\/web\/bnc-archives\/” button_text=”Back to British Needle Company Archives” button_alignment=”center” _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” custom_button=”on” button_icon=”||fa||900″ button_icon_placement=”left” custom_margin=”24px||||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_button][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" One of the ancient London Guilds, given its charter by Oliver Cromwell in 1656.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6009,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wcnm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.forgemill.org.uk\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.forgemill.org.uk\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.forgemill.org.uk\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.forgemill.org.uk\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.forgemill.org.uk\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6013"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.forgemill.org.uk\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6021,"href":"https:\/\/www.forgemill.org.uk\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6013\/revisions\/6021"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.forgemill.org.uk\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.forgemill.org.uk\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.forgemill.org.uk\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.forgemill.org.uk\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}