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Site: Charity School - Hatton Garden (3 memorials)
EC1, Hatton Garden
Ornamental Passions tells us "A pair of schoolchildren flanked each entrance, as was customary, but one pair was later transferred to St Andrew."
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Hatton Garden - charity boy
Subjects commemorated i
Charity School - Hatton Garden
Possibly designed by Wren. Built by Lord Hatton following the loss of St And...
Charity scholars
Looking at London has a page about these little blue people but even there we...
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Hatton Garden - charity boy
Also at this site i
Charity School - plaque
2023: Lionel Wright has drawn our attention to an error in this plaque: St A...
Hatton Garden - charity girl
{On the paper held by the girl:} These statue's {sic} were decorated on behal...
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