Founded in 1561 by Sir Thomas White and originally at St Lawrence Pountney, EC4. In 1875 moved to newly built premised at Charterhouse, mainly to enable expansion. But by 1929 it had been decided that London was too dirty and congested and the playing fields were too far away so the school moved to Sandy Lodge, Hertfordshire, selling the site to St Barts Hospital.
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Merchant Taylors' School
The Great Cloister of The London Charterhouse, 1371 - 1538, once occupied thi...
{Beneath the Merchant Taylors' crest:} Site of Merchant Taylors' School 1561 ...
Boarding School. First mentioned in 1813, but probably built some years befor...
Thousands of service men and women trained at the Walthamstow college: 1940 R...
Founded by Margaret Walker after she worked with Joan Littlewood at the Theat...
