Building    From 1856 

Holborn Union Workhouse School

Categories: Education

The school was part of a huge workhouse complex which gave basic education to about 400 children. Pupils were provided with uniforms, and had access to playing fields, a swimming pool and workshops. Most of the buildings were demolished in the 1930s.

Workhouses has a good page about the Holborn Union: "The Mitcham Industrial School: In 1870, Holborn purchased a large industrial school at Mitcham formerly run by the parish of St George the Martyr, Southwark which had been absorbed by St Saviour's Union the previous year. The school, erected in 1856, stood in the grounds of an old wainscotted mansion called Eagle House at the west side of the High Street in Upper Mitcham. Eagle House itself accommodated fifty boys aged seven to nine, and six monitors selected from the older boys. ... The school classroom block lay immediately to the south of Eagle House. the T-shaped building had boys' classrooms on the ground floor and girls on the first floor."

As far as we can see only Eagle House itself and the classroom block survive.

1884 map showing the area covered by all the different Poor Law Unions, including Holborn.

Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk

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