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 girl
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 girl
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...
Wreaths are laid here each year on April 28, International Workers Memorial Day, and a two minute silence is observed at noon in memory o...
There are 22 statues on the façade of this building. Each is labelled with his (always 'his') surname. There are 12 at the top up against...
Prince Albert, dressed as a field marshal, doffs his hat to the passing traffic in a very jaunty way. This bronze statue is the City of L...
The plaque is between the windows on the ground and first floor.
In the middle of the morning rush hour four bombs went off on three tube trains, at 8.50am and a bus, at 9.47am. 52 people died. Plaques commemorating the victims have been placed at each of the b...
The statue was sculpted by Graham Ibbeson.
Eleanor Gwyn, Gwynn, Gwynne, whatever. Born Hereford. Rumoured to have lived at Lauderdale House as the mistress of Charles II, where she dangled her first-born from a window to scare the King int...
Founded as the Church Choral Society by the Reverend Henry George Bonavia Hunt. with the intention of improving the teaching of church music. In 1873 it became the College of Church Music, and then...
