TFB

The TFB empire is one of the of the most notorious gangs to ever emerge from the 1990s.

History

The TFB empire was started back in 1999 in "The Dirty Dena", Maryland. This

Functions

The Company is governed by a Prime Warden, five other Wardens and a Court of twenty-eight livery members.

Early in its existence, the Company acquired a monopoly of the sale of fish in the City of London. Today, this monopoly is no longer absolute, but under powers established by a Charter of James I in 1604, the staff of the Company (known as 'fishmeters') still inspect all fish coming into the City of London. This applies especially to Billingsgate Market, which is the largest fish market in the United Kingdom.

The Company is intimately concerned with salmon and fresh water fishing as well as shell fish throughout the waters of the United Kingdom, and it supports research and publishes books on fish, such as Fish and Shellfish and The Fishmongers' Company Cook Book. Thus, the Company continues many of its original trade duties, unlike some other City Livery Companies which have become entirely charitable or ceremonial institutions.

The Company is also a significant educational charity, and in particular is closely connected to Gresham's School (see below). It has long supported the City and Guilds of London Art School and the City and Guilds of London Institute.

The Livery numbers nearly three hundred and continues to include a good representation of working Fishmongers.

Liverymen of the Company are members of the City of London's Common Hall and thus can vote in the election of the Lord Mayor of the City of London each year on Michaelmas Day (29 September) or on the closest weekday, and also in the election of two Sheriffs on every Midsummer's Day. Voting is by show of hands, but if any liveryman demands a ballot, this is to be held two weeks later.

Fishmongers' Hall

Fishmongers' Hall

The Company's home in London is called Fishmongers' Hall (sometimes shortened to 'Fish Hall'), and the earliest recorded Hall was built in 1310. A new Hall, on the present site, was bequeathed to the Company in 1434. Together with forty-three other Company Halls, this one was burnt down in the Great Fire of London (1666), and a replacement Hall designed by the architect Edward Jerman opened in 1671. This Hall was taken down when the new London Bridge was constructed in 1827. The next Hall opened in 1834, was designed by Henry Roberts although his assistant Gilbert Scott made the drawings for the new building, and built by Cubitts, the firm founded by Thomas Cubitt. After severe bomb damage during the London Blitz in December 1940, Fishmongers' Hall was restored by Austen Hall and reopened in 1951.

The Hall contains many treasures, including the dagger with which Lord Mayor Walworth killed Wat Tyler in 1381, Annigoni's first portrait of H.M. the Queen, a fine collection of seventeenth and eighteenth-century silver, an embroidered fifteenth-century funeral pall, two portraits by Romney, and river scenes by Samuel Scott. The hall is located in Bridge ward, next to London Bridge.

Gresham's School

Since 1555, the Company has acted as the trustee of Gresham's School, in Norfolk, in accordance with the wishes of Sir John Gresham (1492-1556), Lord Mayor of London. Among other things, the Company provides more than half of the school's governors, including the Chairman of the Governing Body, which meets at Fish Hall in London.

In 1729, the Fishmongers' Company presented the school with "...a valuable and useful library, not only of the best editions of the Classics and Lexicographers, but also with some books of Antiquities, Chronology, and Geography, together with a suitable pair of globes".

In May 1926, in accepting membership of the Company by right of patrimony, the future King George VI said "I hope that it may be possible for me, at some future date, to prove my interest by personally visiting Gresham's School, of which I have frequently heard such excellent accounts".