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 boy
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 boy
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Statues Hither and Thither has been invaluable in identifying some of the busts and most of the statues. The statues are not labelled and...
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...
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