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The Master’s Year

EDITORIAL

This is the 2015 issue of The Constructor, the what they do, and how we can all help them to
annual journal of the Worshipful Company of do it. The format has also been changed to A5
Constructors. The Constructor has had a to help reduce cost.
number of guises over the years and this is but
the latest. I was asked to take over as Editor in My objective in editing this issue of the journal
April 2015 and my first task was to discuss with has been to provide something that all our
the current Master what she wanted the readers will find interesting and will give you
magazine to be – should we continue to insight into how the Company works to provide
develop the magazine as a professional journal, a full programme of events and further our
with appropriate technical articles, or should we outreach and fellowship ideals.
concentrate on providing a journal that told our I hope you will find this, the 37 issue of the
th
members what the company had been doing
over the year? journal, both interesting and informative and
we would welcome your feedback in order to
We decided that the most appropriate format help inform future editions.
would be one which informed our members
what the company had been doing. This edition We would also welcome articles for the next
of the journal is the result of that decision. issue and these should be sent to the editor at
thejournal@virginmedia.com no later than
Whilst there are articles on what we have done 31 July 2016.
over the year there are also pieces from some
of our officers which will give you an insight into Roger Lilley - Editor

A Message from the Master

The newly elected Master gives his thoughts on the year ahead

I am privileged to have become the 39th Master of this Worshipful Company.
Little did I think on the day of my joining the Freedom that I would end up in
this position! All Masters say how honoured they are to be Master, but that is
only because it is true.
My aim for the year is to continue the excellent work done by my
predecessors in raising the profile of our Company. Talking to Masters and
Wardens of other Companies it is clear that we are ‘on the radar’, especially
amongst some of the long established Livery Companies whose Livery
lifespan is measured in centuries rather than our mere 25 years!
My task in this is made so much easier by the fact that Sheriff Dr Christine Rigden’s Mother Company
is the Constructors. During her Shrieval year the Constructors will be represented at several high
profile events which they would not otherwise have been. We all owe a great deal to Christine.
I have thought hard about a theme for my year but at the end of the day I will adopt Immediate Past
Master Victoria Russell’s one of Fellowship but perhaps without the “bling”! The reason I became a
Constructor was fellowship and it is the theme that I always use with potential new members – being
a Constructor is fun!

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