An annual Inter-Livery Skiing Competition takes place in Morzine in the heart of the Portes du Soleil in the northern Alps. The Company likes to enter a team, but the emphasis of the week is not really about the competition – rather it is about good company, good hospitality and good skiing. […]
On Sunday 7th April the Barbers’ Cutter crew took part in the first TTRA race of the season, the Oxbridge Watermen’s Challenge, run on the exact course of the Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race (6.8kms). This race is always approached with a little trepidation, as it is a flat out sprint and is also the first […]
Congratulations to the Cutter crew who took part in this year’s Great River Race (London’s River Marathon), which involves rowing 21.6 miles from London Docklands to Ham in Surrey. Those who took part are (from the left) Liveryman David Brown, Middle Warden Nicholas Goddard, Oliver Lee, Assistant Max King, Dick Blanchard, Liverymen John Deverill and […]
The Master, Wardens and members of the Company were pleased to entertain the Lord Mayor, Alderman Charles Bowman, the Lady Mayoress, Samantha Bowman, and Sheriff Neil Redcliffe and his wife, Emma, at our Civic Dinner held on Thursday 14 June. […]
The Inter-Livery Rifle Shoot took place at Bisley on 1 June and this year the Barbers put in 2 teams. We didn’t win a main prize but our team placings were a very respectable 6th and 8th out of 16. Tom Naunton Morgan came third overall individually and won the gallery rifle. It was a great day with […]
Another sporting success! Oliver Brettle and Paul Hunter represented the Barbers’ Company in the inter-livery golf croquet tournament at Surbiton Croquet Club on 4th June 2018. They won three matches and drew the fourth, putting them in first place. The winners are pictured above with their trophy. […]
The Company welcomed three new Liverymen after their clothing on the 29th May 2018: David Hutchison, Victoria Pegna and Douglas Johnson-Poensgen. […]
On Saturday 17th May 2018 a team made up of Past Master Bruce Cope, Liveryman David Ellis, Liveryman Andrew Last and Liveryman Robert Stone competed in the 2018 Prince Arthur Cup and won first place, for the first time ever, beating 54 other livery companies. A wonderful achievement and many congratulations to all who took […]
What a great day we had! The Barbers’ Cutter, along with a flotilla of cutters, many with grand regalia of different livery companies, escorted the Gloriana to Tower Bridge. The Tudor Pull involves a gift called a Stela (pronounced Steeler) to be sent from Henry VIII’s Hampton Court Palace by the Gloriana barge to the […]
Saturday saw the Barbers Cutter Crew competing again, this time in time trials organised by our affiliated club, the Richmond Bridge Boat Club (RBBC). The original idea was that crews would purely race against the clock, with one or maybe two attempts at the course of 2.25kms being from Richmond Bridge, around Glovers Island and […]