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Competition to win a video call with #DavidTennant for @barnardos (the link includes a video)

Hi Guys.

We've put together a promotion video in support of the Barnardos book / Campaign.

As your aware the campaign does offer some great incentives (Gaelic Memories Prints and Copies of the new book).

Please feel free to watch promotional video, it shows some examples of Stephens work. Enjoy (please unmute to hear the music on Facebook)

Best Wishes for the Weekend.

Ragged School Museum

Thomas Barnardo arrived in London in 1866, seeking to train as a doctor before heading to China on missionary work: he never got there. Instead, after seeing the devastating effects of a cholera epidemic in the East End, he left his medical practice, and devoted his efforts to helping the less fortunate. In 1867, he opened the first ‘ragged school’, so called as many of those who attended were dressed only in rags. The ragged schools provided a free education, though perhaps their biggest draw to some children was the free hot meals.

The ragged school on Copperfield Road opened in 1877, formed from the joining together of three warehouses originally used for storing the goods transported along the neighbouring Regent’s Canal. 

It is reckoned that over the 31 years it operated, tens of thousands of children attended, and were given the opportunity to have a better chance at finding gainful employment.

After the school closed in 1908, the buildings returned to industrial uses until they were scheduled for demolition in the 1980s. Realising that the warehouses were the only surviving buildings to have housed a Barnardo’s ragged school, local people formed the Ragged School Museum Trust to preserve them. Today, the museum houses a replica classroom, a Victorian kitchen, and an exhibition on the history of ragged schools and the local Tower Hamlets area.

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