Possibly designed by Wren. Built by Lord Hatton following the loss of St Andrews church Holborn in the Great Fire. In 1721 converted to house St Andrew's Parochial School. It was given two entrances, boys and girls, one on each frontage, and a pair of the charity children statues was placed at each door. All 4 were still here in the early 20th century and, with great forethought were taken for safe-keeping during WW2 to Bradfield College, Berkshire. Amongst the buildings gutted in WW2 were, indeed, this chapel and St Andrew's church. As part of the restorations a pair of the children were replaced here and the other pair were erected at the church. The Hatton Garden building is now used as offices.
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Charity School - Hatton Garden
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Charity School - plaque
2023: Lionel Wright has drawn our attention to an error in this plaque: St A...
Hatton Garden - charity girl
{On the paper held by the girl:} These statue's {sic} were decorated on behal...
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1 memorial
1 memorial
Frank Masters
Naval cadet from the training ship Arethusa, aged 14. Drowned in the tragedy at Leysdown. He was assisting the scouts at the time.
2 memorials
Walworth Boy Scouts Tragedy
On Saturday the 3rd August 1912, the 2nd Walworth Troop of five adults and twenty-four young scouts sailed from Waterloo Bridge for Leysdown on the Isle of Sheppey. They moored at Erith for the nig...
6 memorials
Crystal Hale
Campaigner and community activist. Daughter of Sir Alan Herbert, she lived in Islington for almost 50 years. In the 1960s her house overlooked the City Road Basin and she led the campaign to save i...
2 memorials
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Sidney Street siege
We are indebted to Derek Smith for the following write-up of the siege: The Siege of Sidney Street on 3rd January 1911 came about because of a bungled robbery in Houndsditch in the City of London a...
3 memorials
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