Braidwood Academy for the Deaf and Dumb, first school in England for the education of the deaf & dumb. Run by Thomas Braidwood. Stood on this site, 1783 - 1799.
London Borough of Hackney
E9, Chatham Place
The name of the house in which the school was housed started as Bowling Green House.  It was changed to Grove House. see our page for the Academy for more about this building and others used by the Academy.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Braidwood Academy
First school in England for the education of the deaf.  Established  by Thoma...
Established an early school for the deaf. Â Born Scotland. Set up as a teacher...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Braidwood Academy
Hackney Council was created in 1965 from the 3 Metropolitan Borough Councils ...
A pair of these markers is attached to each side of the bridge, with CP always to the north and BP to the south. Chelsea Parish and Bat...
Burt Kwouk OBE, 1930 - 2016, Chinese actor, lived here 1990 - 2016. The Heritage Foundation
Unveiled by Griff Rhys Jones and Rory McGrath, two of the 'Three Men in a Boat' in the recent popular TV series. Also present: representa...
John Heartfield, 1891 - 1968, master of political photomontage, lived here, 1938 - 1943. English Heritage
The plaque refers to "Thomas Branden, Duke of Suffolk". We have two problems with this: firstly "Branden" is elsewhere consistently spelt...
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