WCoFF Company News Desk
RHS Chelsea Flower Show On Wednesday 25th May 2022 the Master and Consort visited the Royal Horticultural Society Chelsea Flower Show. Their visit took them to the London Fire Brigade stand which is located in the Grand Pavilion where the LFB are promoting "Act on Flooding - Protecting your Home and Community" with a very impressive stand. Photo L-R, Bella Trowbridge (LFB), Graham Maltby (Mas ...
THE CLERK TO THE WORSHIPFUL OF COMPANY OF FIREFIGHTERS The Worshipful Company of Firefighters (The Company), located in the City of London, is seeking the appointment of a new Clerk to follow the retirement of the existing incumbent scheduled for July 2022. The Company is one of 32 Modern Companies in a total of 110 Livery Companies within the City of London based at the Wax Ch ...
Living with Covid19 (C19)…….another update (Convalescent Plasma Donation) It is now a cold damp Friday in December 2020. More C19 restrictions have been announced and enforced in my County of Hertfordshire. Vaccinations have begun but more people are contracting C19 and its new variant. Hospitals are becoming overwhelmed. I had been in contact with the Blood Transfusion team and h ...
Back in March and early April of this year, (2020), I wrote about my experience of contracting and surviving Covid-19. Following the three terrible weeks of the virus I then found it difficult to shake off the after effects. Four further weeks of fatigue, muscle ache and mild breathlessness gradually merged with what appears to be a full recovery. Sometime in May I was fit enough to ...
Members of the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Fire Authority have today approved the appointment of an assistant chief fire officer. Jon Anderson was confirmed by members at a meeting on Thursday (25) after being recommended for the role following a two-day selection process. Chairman of the authority, Councillor Kevin Reynolds, said: “We are delighted to confirm Jon in the role and offer ...
Thanks to documents preserved by Past Master Beech, the distinguished author on heraldry, Richard Goddard, Past Master Watermen and Lightermen, has written a short history on our Armorial Bearings and the Grant of Arms to the Firefighters. Click on the link to read the document and, if you wish to read a high-resolution copy of our Grant of Arms, it is available on the Company Flickr page. ...
