THE WORSHIPFUL COMPANY OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGISTS FELLOWSHIP
WCIT Fellowship
Contributed by Liverymen Peta Walmisley & Tim Rhodes
A Summers ’ Walk Through Our Capital
O nce again we had Diane Burstein to lead us in a City Walk , this time , on the 24th August , from Tower Hill to Wapping .
Twenty-two members and guests of the WCIT met at Trinity Gardens , where Diane showed us first the memorial to all the seafarers who lost their lives in World War II - a huge number . We then walked East past the Tower of London , and saw the office of the Mayor of London ( not Guildhall !) on the opposite bank , and Tower Bridge , which is not as old as you would suppose ! Following the embankment , we stopped at St Katherine Docks , where she told us about the convent that had occupied the site before the docks were built ; they were originally used to receive cargo from all over the world , but are now a marina housing some large as well as interesting boats . The Gloriana , which took part in the Queen ’ s Diamond Jubilee Pageant , was there .
The next walk is planned for 17 May 2017 , when we will visit Spitalfields . Details will be shown on EventBrite and circulated in the New Year by the Events Panel . Please do come along !
A Visit to the Jaguar F Type in the Making
A visit to the Jaguar F type production line at Castle Bromwich , organised by Liveryman Bob Mackman , on behalf of the Events Panel , took place on 14th September , attended by 22 WCIT members and guests .
The F type is Jaguar ' s 2 seat , high end , sports car introduced in 2013 . The factory targets to make 60 per day , the majority of which are exported .
Past the headquarters of the River Police and jetties with old barges , seeing the old wharves across the river , as well as a large amount of warehouses redeveloped into apartments on both sides of the river . We visited the Hermitage Memorial Garden , in memory of the children who were killed and injured in the bombings during the Second World War , and further along a Gallows Garden , where the forerunners of the River Police had hanged criminals and put their heads on spikes to deter others ! We passed the ‘ Town of Ramsgate ’ pub , as well as a school with definite divisions for boys and girls ! We finished the day with the usual dinner and drinks together .
Apart from the general interest of visiting a car production plant , a focus for the attendees was to see the use of robots in a complex manufacturing process . Over 300 of these devices construct the basic generic aluminium car shell , after which each car is identified with a buyer and the rest of the process - some 75 % of the total production ' track ' - is done by hand at ' stations ', rather than on a moving line .
The lasting impression for the attendees , however , was probably not the robots , but the all-pervasive attention to quality which Tata Motors introduced .
WCIT Nostalgia Lunch
1992 Members
A further ‘ nostalgia ’ lunch was held in May 2016 , this year attended by 30 members of the WCIT who had been members when Livery was granted in 1992 . They enjoyed a delicious meal in the Livery Room , followed by drinks in our treasures area and were able to meet colleagues and friends from that time to reminisce .
Members from 1992 enjoying lunch in our Livery Room .
They were welcomed by the then Master , Alderman Sir David Wootton , and joined by the then Senior Warden , Chris Histed , plus the Clerk Mike Jenkins of course ! The Master thanked Peta Walmisley for organising this happy occasion .
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