The school was founded 1688. This building was constructed in 1709 and was used by the school until 1926. Purchased by the National Trust in 1954 who use it as a gift shop and information centre.
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Blewcoat School
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Blewcoat School SW1 - charity boy
{On a stone plaque below the statue:} The Blewcoat School, built in the year ...
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Frances Mary Buss
Pioneer of education for women. Born London. Headmistress at Camden School, 1879 - 1894. The Kentish Towner has a history of the school. Died at home, 87 King Henry's Road, Hampstead.
1 memorial
Palingswick House
Former private house, school and home for diabetic children. Now the West London Free School.
1 memorial
Central Foundation Girls School
Moved from Spital Square in 1975 to the building in Bow Road. Spitalfields Life reports on a 2013 school reunion at the old building, which is now Galvin Restaurant - old photos and reminiscences.
1 memorial
Charterhouse School
Founded by Thomas Sutton in 1611, the year of his death. An ex-Carthusian priory near Smithfield was used for the school - thus pupils are known as Carthusians. Sutton was buried in the chapel. Th...
1 memorial
St John's House
From the National Archives : "St John House was founded in 1848 as a 'Training Institution for Nurses for Hospitals, Families and the Poor'. It was a religious community run by a Master, who was a ...
1 memorial
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Stephanie Turner
Stephanie was 29-years old and newly engaged. She was a physiotherapist who worked for the NHS, a tri-athlete, who ran marathons and climbed mountains. Her friends remember her as someone that lit ...
1 memorial
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Matthew Macauley
An information technician killed in the Ladboke Grove rail disaster, aged 26. Andrew Behan has kindly carried out further research: Matthew Peter Macauley was born on 10 October 1972 in Kohimarama...
1 memorial
Dr. Joseph Rogers
Health care reformer. The picture source, an article on Rogers in the British Medical Journal, 16/12/1989, was kindly brought to my attention by one of its authors, Ruth Richardson.
1 memorial
Alfred Hitchcock
Film director. Born at 517 Leytonstone High Road above his father William’s greengrocery and poultry shop. See Spitalfields Life for an unusual take on his life in Leytonstone. When Alfie was about...
23 memorials
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