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Haggerston Road School

Categories: Education

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We can find very little about this school, it's all just hints and pointers.

AIM25's holdings for All Saints Church include some records about the parish school, presumably this one. 

The earliest map we can find is from 1870 and shows the site with the plaques labelled "National School (boys and girls)". The OS maps of 1895 and 1913 show the same building labelled "Sunday School".

The National Archives hold Haggerston Road School logbooks 1879-1932. A guide from the London Metropolitan Archive (pdf) refers to a holding of Haggerston Road School, Lee Street, Admission and discharge register for boys, 1895 - 1931. Which suggests that the school also occupied a site on neighbouring Lee Street.

While the IWM says the school was demolished in the 1930s, the plaque says it was destroyed by bombs in 1941.

The hall now (2022) on the site was erected in 1955.

Do not confuse this school with Haggerston School, Weymouth Terrace. E2, designed in 1962 by Erno Goldfinger.

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Haggerston Road School

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Haggerston Road School - destroyed

{Upper plaque:} Original schools destroyed by enemy action 1941. This hall er...

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Haggerston Road School - opened

Note: you can see that when the original plaque was saved from the demolition...

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Sir George Cockburn

Sir George Cockburn

The Thoresby Society (the Historical Society for Leeds and District) have a book available: "Sir George Cockburn, 1848 - 1927" by A Elton. Other than that we can find no information about Sir George.

Person, Education

1 memorial
Tobias Matthay

Tobias Matthay

Teacher and pianist.  Born Clapham.  1903 he published "The Act of Touch" a book on piano playing technique and learning.  This and other books and his Tobias Matthay Pianoforte School in Oxford St...

Person, Education, Music / songs

1 memorial
Moriaki Asakura

Moriaki Asakura

Became a student at UCL in 1865.

Person, Education, Japan

1 memorial
London School Board

London School Board

Created out of the Elementary Education Act 1870.  The LSB covered the same Inner London area as that of the Metropolitan Board of Works.  The members of the LSB were directly elected.  The LSB ens...

Group, Education, Politics & Administration

1 memorial