Company of Watermen & Lightermen

Sectors:

  • Membership services Livery company & trade guild services

Notes:

Traced origins to 1555 when Rulers of All Watermen & Wherrymen established to regulate fares charged for transport on River Thames. The two watermen and lightermen merged [watermen re passengers and lightermen re goods] in 1770. Incorporated 1827. Not a livery company

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