Braidwood Academy for the Deaf and Dumb, first school in England for the education of the deaf & dumb. Run by Thomas Braidwood. Stood on this site, 1783 - 1799.
London Borough of Hackney
E9, Chatham Place
The name of the house in which the school was housed started as Bowling Green House. It was changed to Grove House. see our page for the Academy for more about this building and others used by the Academy.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Braidwood Academy
First school in England for the education of the deaf. Established by Thoma...
Established an early school for the deaf. Born Scotland. Set up as a teacher...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Braidwood Academy
Hackney Council was created in 1965 from the 3 Metropolitan Borough Councils ...
London's roads were heavily congested, the railways stopped on the fringes of the West End so some way of linking the mainline stations: ...
Virginia Stephen, Virginia Woolf, 1882-1941, novelist and critic, born and lived here until 1904.
Lovely graphic border to this plaque - ears of corn.
Greater London Council William Marsden, 1796 - 1867, surgeon, founder of the Royal Free and Royal Marsden Hospitals, lived here.
Thomas Cubitt, 1788 - 1855, master builder, lived here. London County Council
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