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Grey Coat School - boy

Site: Grey Coat School (5 memorials)

SW1, Greycoat Place, Grey Coat School

The scholars are on the central facade of the building: boy to left, girl to right, with the British Royal coat of arms between. Above them is the text "Grey Coat Hospital 1698 - 1955". 1698 is the school's foundation year but we cannot explain the 1955. Then, in 2017, Margaret Meadows, a pupil at the time, kindly wrote to tell us: "1955 was the year that part of the building was reopened by Princess Alexandra after being bombed during WW2."

The trees with the blue plaques are in the garden facing the road, to the right of the Thompson plaque: Eddy on the left, Rusbridge on the right.

Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk

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This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Grey Coat School - boy

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Charity scholars

Looking at London has a page about these little blue people but even there we...

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Grey Coat Hospital / Grey Coat School

From the school's website: "In 1666, after the Great Fire of London, many inh...

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Grey Coat School - David Thompson

Grey Coat School - David Thompson

Plaque unveiled by Ray Mears.

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Grey Coat School - Eddy

Grey Coat School - Eddy

For Joan Audrey Eddy (Chivers), student at The Grey Coat Hospital, 1944 - 194...

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Grey Coat School - Rusbridge

Grey Coat School - Rusbridge

In memory of our secretary and vice-president, Elizabeth Rusbridge (Gibbs), 1...

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