Central Foundation Girls School (founded 1726) moved from Spital Square in 1975 to this building which the Coborn Girls School (founded 1701) had occupied since its opening in 1898.
Historic Buildings of Bow
E3, Bow Road
Below the first floor bay window a large stone frieze is beginning to crumble but still reads: "Stepney & Bow Foundation Coborn Girls School".
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Central Foundation Girls School
Moved from Spital Square in 1975 to the building in Bow Road. Spitalfields L...
From the picture source website: "Prisca Coborn, the widow of a brewer, found...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Central Foundation Girls School
The name was originally applied to the Tower division of the county of Middle...
Virginia Clarke, one of her former flatmates, assisted with the unveiling of the plaque.
Sir Frederick Ashton, 1904 - 1988, choreographer, lived here 1959 - 1984. English Heritage
Here lived Topham Beauclerk. Born 1739. Died 1780. Lady Diana Beauclerk. Born 1734. Died 1808.
30 Coborn Street. Here Doctor Barnardo first lodged on coming to London in 1866. Historic buildings of Bow
Hugh Price Hughes, 1847 - 1902, Methodist preacher lived and died here. English Heritage
Prior to the LCC London matters were run by church parishes. The LCC was the first directly elected strategic local government body for London. Replaced by the Greater London Council, covering a la...
In 1923 Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon (descended from the Royal House of Scotland) married Prince Albert, Duke of York, the man who would become George VI when his elder brother Edward VIII abdicated. ...
Sorry, we've done no research on WW2, it's just too big a subject. But do visit the picture source web site - it has a fascinating collection of maps. And we enjoyed these photos of current WW2 ev...
Founded by Henry Ford in Detroit. The company opened in Britain at Dagenham in 1931, but production here has been greatly downsized.
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