Concept    From 1781 

Sunday Schools (centenary)

Categories: Children, Education

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Workhouses.org informs that schools for children on Sundays probably happened earlier but the movement started in 1780 when Robert Raikes opened a school in Gloucester.

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This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Sunday Schools (centenary)

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Centenary Hall - Sunday Schools

Centenary of Sunday Schools AD 1780 - 1880.

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Landsbergs boy scouts

Landsbergs boy scouts

"Toynbee Hall (Routledge Revivals): The First Hundred Years" 1984, Asa Briggs and Anne Macartney provides: "Already in the 1890s, there had been increasing interest in what would now be called yout...

Group, Children, Community / Clubs

1 memorial
RAF apprentices and boy entrants

RAF apprentices and boy entrants

Royal Air Force apprentices and boy entrants, 1920 - 1993.

Group, Armed Forces, Children

1 memorial
Christ Church Charity School, Spitalfields

Christ Church Charity School, Spitalfields

From British History online (mainly): In 1708 a charity school started in Spitalfields, the boys somewhere in Brick Lane, the girls somewhere in what is now Princelet Street. In 1782-3 a new school...

Building, Children, Education

3 memorials
Frank George Southgate

Frank George Southgate

Drowned in the 1898 HMS Albion disaster, aged 3 months. Buried in grave 5 at the memorial in East London Cemetery.

Person, Children, Tragedy

1 memorial
Jim Gaffney

Jim Gaffney

Spent his life helping vulnerable children.

Person, Children, Social Welfare

1 memorial