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
Built in 1892 by Charles Henman Jr. this heavily decorated complex of buildings makes up Croydon's Town Hall. The building and the rounde...
The scholars are on the central facade of the building: boy to left, girl to right, with the British Royal coat of arms between. Above th...
The monument, officially titled the Prince Consort National Memorial, celebrates Victorian achievement and Prince Albert's passions and i...
Criticised at the time as the "worst piece of sculpture in England".
{On the front of the plinth:} Kitchener, 1850 - 1916 {On the front of the lower shallow plinth:} Erected by Parliament {Inscribed on t...
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