What did Poulters' Hall blue plaque do at King Edward Street?

The Story

# Poulters' Hall, King Edward Street Standing here on King Edward Street, you're at the threshold of where London's poultry trade once held its heart—this very spot hosted Poulters' Hall from 1630 until the Great Fire of 1666 consumed it in flames. For thirty-six years, this was the guildhall where the Company of Poulters, the ancient fraternity of poultry dealers, conducted their business and maintained their institutional identity in the medieval City of London. Within these walls, they regulated the trade, settled disputes among merchants, enforced standards for the birds brought to market, and gathered for the ceremonial feasts that bound their community together. When the fire roared through these streets in September 1666, Poulters' Hall vanished into ash, taking with it decades of records and a tangible symbol of the pre-Fire City—making this corner of King Edward Street not just a lost building, but a marker of an entire guild's medieval authority that would never quite be rebuilt in the same way again.