informs that schools for children on Sundays probably happened earlier but the movement started in 1780 when Robert Raikes opened a school in Gloucester.
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Sunday Schools (centenary)
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Bethnal Green School
In 1868 the Bethnal Green Poor Law Guardians bought Leytonstone House in its 8 acres and developed the site to provide a large children's home, Bethnal Green School. This 1893 map shows the layout ...
1 memorial
Christopher David Pullen
Christopher Pullen, aged 12, died in Southdown House when a heavy steel fire door, lying off its hinges, propped up in the stairwell of a block of flats, fell on him causing fatal injuries. The doo...
1 memorial
1 memorial
Valerie Looker
Killed, aged 18 mths, in the Downhills shelter WW2 tragedy, 19 September 1940.
War dead non-military, WW2
1 memorial
Ambika Paul
Daughter of Lord Paul. She died from leukaemia and the Ambika Paul Foundation which supports charitable causes, was set up in her memory.
1 memorial
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