Affiliations
Oundle School in Oundle, Northamptonshire, uses the Badge of the Grocers Camel as their school badge. The Company is responsible for the maintenance of the school and of The Elms School in Colwall, Hertfordshire, and is represented on the council of University College School in Hampstead, northwest London.
As part of the Company's work, a school was founded in Hackney, east London, in 1876 for the sons of middle class gentlemen. The school, The Grocers' Company School, was later handed over to the London County Council and changed its name to Hackney Downs School; it closed in 1995. The school had as its school badge a camel, for the lower School, and a shield with cloves and the motto of the Grocers' Company for the Upper School; the Camel and Cloves are remembered to this day by old boys of the school through the Clove Club (their alumni).
The Company is also affiliated to HMS Gloucester, a Type 42 destroyer of the Royal Navy, and to the Coldstream Guards, the oldest regiment in the regular British Army.
Eglinton Village in County Londonderry, Northern Ireland was founded by the Grocer's Guild, under the name Muff, and therefore the "Castle" now a Credit union bears its crest, as does the Primary School.
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