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From: "David Booty" <>
Subject: Re: Norfolk basket making
Date: Mon, 1 Jan 2001 10:59:44 -0000
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Diana

The Worshipful Company of Basketmakers was a City of London Livery Company,
ie a trade association for basket makers within the City only, and had no
authority over basket makers elsewhere.

However, a master craftsman in another town or city, such as Norwich, might
have belonged to one or other of the local guilds and could have become a
Freeman of the Borough, so there may be records of basket makers in the
Freedom and Apprenticeship records of Norfolk boroughs such as King's Lynn,
Norwich and Yarmouth

David Booty

----- Original Message -----
From: "Diana and Peter" <>
Subject: Norfolk basket making


> making and found out that Basket makers in England had
> their own professional association since 1569 'The
> worshipful company of basket makers'. This was given a
> royal charter in 1937. Although today we may consider
> it an insignificant occupation it seems to have been
> an important industry in times gone by.

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