Workhouses.org informs that schools for children on Sundays probably happened earlier but the movement started in 1780 when Robert Raikes opened a school in Gloucester.
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Sunday Schools (centenary)
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Charles Hamilton (Frank Richards)
Author for children. Born Oak Street, Ealing, where the plaque now is. Specialised in writing long series of stories generally using a different pen-name for each. Most famously, as Charles Hamil...
1 memorial
Alfred Joseph Walter Sims
Drowned in the 1898 HMS Albion disaster, aged 6. Buried in grave 3 at the memorial in East London Cemetery.
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
Mary Redfern
Drowned in the 1898 HMS Albion disaster, aged 13. Buried in grave 5 at the memorial in East London Cemetery.
1 memorial
Sarah Elizabeth Simmons
Drowned in the 1898 HMS Albion disaster, aged 12. Buried in grave 1 at the memorial in East London Cemetery.
1 memorial
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HMS Albion disaster
E13, Grange Road, East London Cemetery
28 victims are buried here; another 6-11 victims (numbers differ between sources) were buried elsewhere. Of these 28, 12 were children (b...
29 subjects commemorated
Barry Evans
NW3, Buckland Crescent, 8
Barry Evans, 1943 - 1997, actor, lived here. The Heritage Foundation
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
Thomas More - Woolwich Town Hall
SE18, Wellington Street, Greenwich Town Hall
We can find no confirmation that More lived at Eltham, though he probably visited his daughter, Margaret Roper, at her home there. From e...
4 subjects commemorated,
1 creator
PP - 3X - Onslow
EC1, Edward Street
Lighters were the flat-bottomed barges used to load or offload the goods from the ships moored in the middle of the river in the Port of ...
1 subject commemorated,
2 creators
ICI - 7 - Ludwig Mond
SW1, Millbank, 9, Imperial Chemical House
For an idea of what this area used to be like see this 1894ish map. It was all redeveloped following the 1928 flood. This block was desig...
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator