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STEPHANIE ELLA MAUREEN CURRIE (STELLA) Born in Bangor, Co. Down, but came to England about three weeks later and lived in Heswall, on the Wirral, Cheshire. Subsequently moved to N.Wales when my father stood for Parliament in a Welsh constituency. I was educated at Cheltenbam Ladies College of which I am now a Corporate member I qualified as a solicitor in 1957 and moved to London then. My father had been elected to Parliament for a N. Ireland seat in 1955 and the rest of the family had moved to Belfast. Since coming to London, I have worked mainly in the City and have lived in first the Temple and now the Barbican since 1970. I was Chairman of the Barbican Association from 1981 to 1983. I was also a founder member of Broad Street Ward Club and Chairman of that in 1982/3. I was Master of Cripplegate Ward Club in 1994/95 First elected to the Court of Common Council in 1985, I have served on a number of Committees and am a former Chairman of Spitalfields Market Committee and of the Education Committee. I am a trustee of Spitalfields Market Community Trust, set up in Tower Hamlets with planning gain money. I am a Governor of Cripplegate Foundation. I am on the Governing body of the United Wards Club of the City of London I am interested in the Theatre and am- a founder member of The Friends of the British Theatre.
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Functions held whilst Master 16 February 1994 A.G.M. and Annual Luncheon at Guildhall. The Lord Mayor was then Sir Paul Newell, a former Common Councilman for Cripplegate. 20 April 1994 Bank of England Tercentenary year visit.
After visiting the Museum and the Parlor, we adjourned to the Butchers’
hall for Lunch at the Carvery there. 11 May 1994 Tour of old Spitalfields. A fascinating guided walk round the area followed by a Reception at Toynbee Hall. 24 May 1994 Evening at the Guildhall Library. A fascinating display of exhibits relating to Cripplegate and the Lord Mayor’s Show, followed by a finger buffet. 16 June 1994 Early morning visit to the new Spitalfields Market followed by a large breakfast there. 26 June 1994 Barbecue at the home of Wilfred and Pauline Archibald. Plenty of entertainment laid on before and after the barbecue. 7 July 1994 A specially commissioned Opera at the City of London Girls’ School to mark the Centenary of the School, followed by a finger buffet. 26 July 1994 Tower Bridge Centenary Visit following tea at Bramah Tea and Coffee Museum. 24 September 1994. Visit to Brogdale Fruit Farm in Kent. Tour of apple orchards following lunch there. 24 October 1994. Annual Banquet at Trinity House — guest speaker was Anthea Fraser, a novelist and crime writer. 12 November 1994. Lord Mayor’s Show. 1 December 1994. Advent Carol Service at St. Giles. followed by a finger buffet in the Church. January 1995. Visit to St. John’s Clerkenwell, followed by a finger buffet there. 15 February 1995. A.G.M. and Luncheon.
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SPOTLIGHT ON CRIPPLEGATE
WARD CLUB - 1994 The Ward Club was
established in 1878 and celebrated its Centenary in 1978. It has a
membership of about 250. A programme of events is presented each year by
the incoming Master and these are mainly visits and social activities that
are City orientated. A Civic Luncheon is normally held in February in
Guildhall and this year’s Luncheon was a particularly happy occasion as
Sir Paul Newall had been one of the Common Councilmen for Cripplegate
before becoming an Alderman. Both the Ward Deputies are past Masters of
the Club and the present Master, Stella Currie, is one of the Ward Members
on Common Council. The other nine Members for the Ward are members of the
Club. Cripplegate Ward extended
its boundaries in April and now has an electorate of about 2,500, most of
whom are resident in the Ward. The Golden Lane Estate moved from Islington
into the City and became part of Cripplegate then - one of only a few
changes to the City boundaries for centuries. Otherwise, Cripplegate takes
in about two-thirds of the Barbican, part of the Guildhall, six Livery
Companies, the City of London School for Girls, the Guildhall School of
Music and Drama and a number of office buildings and shops. This year, the Club’s
programme has reflected Stella Currie’s Corporation of London
activities. As Chairman of Spitalfields Market, she organised a visit to
the old Spitalfields area, followed by a Reception at Toynbee Hall, and
then, a few weeks’ later, an early morning visit to the new Spitalfields
Market. The Club is travelling to Brogdale Horticultural Trust to see the
National Fruit Collection in September as a result of the Master of the
Fruiterers’ Company planting a mulberry tree at Spitalfields Market and
explaining the Company’s involvement with Brogdale. Other events have
included the Centenary Opera, “Anna”, commissioned and performed by
the City of London School for Girls, a visit to the Guildhall Library,
where a fascinating display of exhibits relating to Cripplegate and Lord
Mayor’s Show was arranged as well as the normal exhibits, a Tercentenary
visit to the Bank of England, followed by Luncheon in the Carvery of the
Butchers’ Hall (an arrangement by Stella’s Livery Company, the
Solicitors’, with the Butchers’ made this privilege possible), a visit
to the Bramah Tea and Coffee Museum followed by a Centenary visit to Tower
Bridge and a barbecue in Sussex at the home of the Chairman of the
Corporation’s Housing Committee. The Annual Dinner is to be held at Trinity House
in October and the guest speaker will be a novelist and crime writer who
attended Stella’s old School. St. Giles Cripplegate, the Ward Church, has recently been cleaned outside and the Club is looking forward to an Advent Carol Service there at the beginning of December, a change from the more usual Christmas Carol Service Stella Currie 1994
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