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Doggett’s Wager 2012
The 298th Doggett’s Wager
takes place on Friday
20 July 2012. The race goes with the tide and will
start from Albert Bridge or London Bridge at a time
to be confirmed. You can check closer to the time
with the Worshipful Company of Fishmongers on
0207 626 3531
.
race is free to watch.
Company of Watermen & Lightermen
Groups of up to 35 people can visit their Georgian Hall
near the Monument and London Bridge at 10.30am on
Monday and Friday mornings. The 90 minute tour costs
£12 per person and includes a cup of tea or coffee at the
end of the tour. You could push the boat out and include
a sandwich luncheon at the hall for £28 or a fork buffet
luncheon at £39 including the tour.
Alternately you can apply for up to 2 tickets for the
public tours which are held periodically. There aren’t
published dates for the public tours, it’s rather like the
old days on the Thames - they go when there’s enough
people.
Contact the Assistant Clerk Carol on 0207 283 2373
or send an e-mail to
To Celebrate the Diamond Jubilee
the Company of Watermen and Lightermen are holding
a special Thames rowing race over the Doggett’s Wager
course with Doggett’s Men (as past winners are known)
between London Bridge and Chelsea Bridge. The race
will take place on 4 September 2012. Both the time and
starting point are dependent on the tide and this
information will be available nearer the time from the Hall
number to the left or the website www.watermenshall.org.
The Knollys Rose Ceremony
will be held from 10.45am on 14 June 2012. This is a
revived custom in which a rose is given as payment for
a fine. Back in 1381 a footbridge was erected without
permission between two properties on Seething Lane
owned by Lady Constance Knollys and for this
transgression she was fined one red rose; the custom
lapsed but was revived in the twentieth century and is
carried out by the Company of Watermen and Lightermen
of the River Thames. The Master of the Company chooses
a rose from the garden on Seething Lane; the cut blossom
is carried ceremonially on a velvet cushion by the Verger
of All-Hallows-by-the-Tower in a colourful procession
to the Mansion House, where is it presented to the Lord
Mayor in a private ceremony.