In 1893 the Acting Superintendent of the old Snow Fields Ragged School.
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Waltham Forest College
Originally founded as the South West Essex Technical College. It offers a wide variety of courses for students.
Florence Keen
Founder of the North Islington Infant Welfare Centre and School for Mothers in Holloway in 1913. At that time, around 10% of children in Islington died before their fifth birthday. She and her coll...
Sir John Cass's Foundation
From the picture source website: "In 1710 Cass set up a school for 50 boys and 40 girls in buildings in the churchyard of St Botolph-without-Aldgate. Intending to leave all his property to the scho...
Henry Fawcett
Economist, politician and educational reformer. Born Salisbury. Blinded in a shooting accident as a young man. The first blind MP. As Postmaster General (1880-4) he developed the parcel post and in...
Person, Economist, Education, Politics & Administration, Social Welfare
Anne Winifrede O'Reilly
Schoolteacher. Headteacher at Peckham Emergency Central School, 1940 - 46, and the first head at Walworth's first comprehensive school, 1947 - 55, when she retired. Founding member of the All En...
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Lionel Logue
Speech therapist and actor. Born Lionel George Logue in College Town, Adelaide, South Australia. He started work as a speech therapist and actor. During the First World War, he treated soldiers re...
Foyles - David Attenborough
W1, Tottenham Court Road, Foyles bookshop
We found these two plaques in the basement, near the lift and stairwell. There may be others elsewhere in the store - if you find any pl...
Waltham Forest Council
Formed in 1965 from the joining of Chingford, Leyton and Walthamstow.
Jean Charles de Menezes
Born Brazil. Electrician. Shot dead in a tube carriage by counter-terrorist police officers hunting for would-be suicide bombers who had attempted to attack the London transport system the day be...
Sir Hans Sloane - WC1
WC1, Bloomsbury Place, 4
London County Council Sir Hans Sloane, 1660 - 1753, physician, benefactor of the British Museum, lived here, 1695 - 1742.