E1, Raine Street, Raine's House
The motto above the door reads ‘Come in and learn your duty to God and man’. The scholar statues on the front are copies. The originals were taken by the school when it moved to Bethnal Green, in 1880 or 1885 (it's not clear).
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Raine's House - charity boy
Looking at London has a page about these little blue people but even there we...
This school was founded in what is now Raine Street by Henry Raine (1679 - 17...
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Raine's House - charity boy
The large terrace area around the statue is worth commenting on. It's clearly original and has somehow survived. There are 4 concentric...
Byron is shown with his beloved Newfoundland dog, Boatswain, who had died of rabies at Newstead Abbey on 18 November 1808, and for whom B...
This is a fibreglass copy of the statue on Denmark Hill.
The Harding tree is on the far left of our photo, and seems a goodly size for one not planted before 1985.
Criticised at the time as the "worst piece of sculpture in England".
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