Braidwood Academy for the Deaf and Dumb, first school in England for the education of the deaf & dumb. Run by Thomas Braidwood. Stood on this site, 1783 - 1799.
London Borough of Hackney
E9, Chatham Place
The name of the house in which the school was housed started as Bowling Green House. It was changed to Grove House. see our page for the Academy for more about this building and others used by the Academy.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Braidwood Academy
First school in England for the education of the deaf. Established by Thoma...
Established an early school for the deaf. Born Scotland. Set up as a teacher...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Braidwood Academy
Hackney Council was created in 1965 from the 3 Metropolitan Borough Councils ...
City of Westminster Sir F. Paolo Tosti, K.C.V.O., musician, 1846 - 1916, lived in a house on this site, 1836 - 1916. Assoc. Abruzzo-Mol...
These 4 stones are evenly spaced on the horizontal surface of the rim of the pond. We have numbered them clockwise, starting at the west....
When we first spotted this plaque it was brass and quite brief. Sometime around 2009 it was replaced with the classy inscribed stone plaq...
It seems likely that "1922" is the date the plaque was erected - exactly 50 years after Mazzini's death.
John McCormack, 1884 - 1945, lyric tenor, lived here, 1908 - 1913. English Heritage
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