Central Foundation Girls School (founded 1726) moved from Spital Square in 1975 to this building which the Coborn Girls School (founded 1701) had occupied since its opening in 1898.
Historic Buildings of Bow
E3, Bow Road
Below the first floor bay window a large stone frieze is beginning to crumble but still reads: "Stepney & Bow Foundation Coborn Girls School".
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Central Foundation Girls School
Moved from Spital Square in 1975 to the building in Bow Road. Spitalfields L...
From the picture source website: "Prisca Coborn, the widow of a brewer, found...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Central Foundation Girls School
The name was originally applied to the Tower division of the county of Middle...
Sir Thomas Dewey, 1840 - 1926, lived here for many years. He was a champion for Bromley and pioneered public health and education improve...
Robert Polhill Bevan, 1865 - 1925, Camden Town Group painter, lived here, 1900 - 1925. English Heritage
Two rather sad tree boxes, one empty and the other containing a dead commemorative tree.
The plaque gives his birth year as 1863, when, according to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, it was 1869.
Comments are provided by Facebook, please ensure you are signed in here to see them