Archaeologists at Barbers' Hall : Mr. Sidney Young, F.S.A., on the Medieval Company.
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- [1904]
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Credit: Archaeologists at Barbers' Hall : Mr. Sidney Young, F.S.A., on the Medieval Company. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![[Reprinted from The Hairdressers’Chronicle and Trade Journal, December 17th, 1904.] ARCHAEOLOGISTS AT BARBERS’ HALL Mr. Sidney Young, F.S.A., on the Mediaeval Company. Despite the falling rain a fairly numerous and representative company of the members and fiiends of the London and Middle- sex Archaeological Society met on Saturday afternoon at Barbers’ Hall, Monkvvell Street, London, and listened to a delightful gossip by Mr. Sidney Young, a Past Master, member of the Court, and historian of the Company. The society, which has been established some fifty years, but had largely fallen into desuetude, has, within the last two or three years, been resuscitated under the fostering influences of its Honorary Secretaries, Mr. C. Welch, the Guildhall librarian, Mr. Edwin H. Freshfield, and, as perhaps the most active of the three, Mr. T. W. Shore, author of a “ History of Hampshire,” who is now residing in London, after a useful career of educational work at Southampton, and devotes his time largely to the promotion of the interests of the society. Saturday’s visit was one of a series made by the society’s members to churches and other attractive spots in London and its suburbs, where papers are read, and a closer acquaintance made with places of historical and antiquarian interest. Mr. E. W. Brahrook, C.B. (the recently retired Chief Registrar of Friendly Societies), Vice-President of the society, in introducing Mr. Young to the meeting, mentioned that he was the historian of the Barbers’ Company, and having had the pleasure of reading that work he was looking forward to his paper with unusual interest, and had no doubt it would create a desire on the part of many who might not have seen it to make themselves acquainted with a really delight- ful book. Mr. Yocng having explained the enforced absence from the meet- ing of the Master of the Company, said that, time not allowing him, he had been unable to prepare a paper, as their President seemed to have anticipated, but he had brought a few notes as an aid to his memory in telling them something about the history of the Company in whose hall they were assembled. Its origin was undoubtedly of a religious character ; then, pro- bably, it became a semi-social and religious guild, and ultimately developed into a trade guild. It was known to have existed in the thirteenth century, and although there were no records existent previous to 1308, it probably existed long before. From that](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22479028_0003.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
