E1, Raine Street, Raine's House
The motto above the door reads ‘Come in and learn your duty to God and man’. The scholar statues on the front are copies. The originals were taken by the school when it moved to Bethnal Green, in 1880 or 1885 (it's not clear).
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Raine's House - charity boy
Looking at London has a page about these little blue people but even there we...
This school was founded in what is now Raine Street by Henry Raine (1679 - 17...
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Raine's House - charity boy
The statue was unveiled in Bergkamp's lifetime which puts him in a select club - see Fenner Brockway statue.
In his right hand he holds an induction coil. The marble original of this statue was made in 1874 and is held by the Royal Institute. Thi...
This identification of the statues on front of this building is only tentative, suggested by Ornamental Passions.
The Foreign Office was completed in 1873 to the 1861 designs of Sir George Gilbert Scott, with Sir Matthew Digby Wyatt for the St James’s...
Fourteen niches on the West Front remained empty since the Abbey was built until 1998 when they were filled. The lower four are filled wi...
Janina was brought down by a left-turning lorry at about 11.30am on Friday 17 October 2014. She died 3 days later in hospital, the second...
July 2015 The Mirror reported that 4 of these plaques (Benny Hill, Tommy Cooper, Sid James and Irene Handl) were stolen just prior to the...
For an idea of what this area used to be like see this 1894ish map. It was all redeveloped following the 1928 flood. This block was desig...
Our image comes from Historic England where we found the designer, Groll, but don't trust the dates given there.
Google Street View shows the plaque in place March 2022 but just an empty frame in August 2022.
