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Founded as Goldsmiths' Technical and Recreative Institute by the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths. In 2006 it became Goldsmiths, University of London. Its range of departments includes Art, Design and Music.
Some of the better known alumni are: Damien Hirst, Antony Gormley, Mary Quant and Damon Albarn.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
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Goldsmiths College
Gold has "The mural was created through a collaboration between local communi...
Founded in 1845 as the Glasgow Government School of Design. It changed to its current name in 1853. The main building, shown in the picture, in Renfrew Street was designed by Charles Rennie Mackint...
In 1466 the school attached to the church of St Dunstan in the East was one of the five recognised grammar schools in the City of London. In 1888 this boys independent school was moved out to Catfo...
Born at 3 William Street, Kingsland Road. He became a Tunbridge Ware manufacturer, then a music teacher. He broadened his interests to the general education of working-class children and became the...
Person, Education, Gardens / Agriculture, Politics & Administration
Robert Edwin Hemblington Goffin was born in 1836 in Highgate, Middlesex, the eldest of the eleven children of John Breeze Goffin (1799-1874) and Martha Goffin née Hall (1810-1891). On 9 October 183...
Initiated by Sir Robert Clayton who had read about the French schools of navigation. He persuaded King Charles II to support the UK equivalent as part of Christ's Hospital. "Samuel Pepys in the Adm...