Central Foundation Girls School (founded 1726) moved from Spital Square in 1975 to this building which the Coborn Girls School (founded 1701) had occupied since its opening in 1898.
Historic Buildings of Bow
E3, Bow Road
Below the first floor bay window a large stone frieze is beginning to crumble but still reads: "Stepney & Bow Foundation Coborn Girls School".
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Central Foundation Girls School
Moved from Spital Square in 1975 to the building in Bow Road. Â Spitalfields L...
From the picture source website: "Prisca Coborn, the widow of a brewer, found...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Central Foundation Girls School
The name was originally applied to the Tower division of the county of Middle...
{In the scroll at the top, French for 'My faith in God':} Ma foi en dieu. This stone, the first in the new street, was laid by Robert E...
William Heath Robinson, 1872 - 1944, artist, illustrator and cartoonist known as the 'gadget king', lived here. Historic Buildings of the...
Donated in memory, Israel Renson, 1906 - 1986, founder member of Victoria Park Society.
Regent's Park Lit details how Bowen set scenes in her novels in Regent's Park, which she could see out the window as she wrote.
William Felton's carriage works was close to this spot. In 1803 he built a carriage powered by a steam engine designed and supplied by Ri...
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