Comments on: At The Ragged School Museum https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/05/07/at-the-ragged-school-museum/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Thu, 15 Feb 2018 17:47:34 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Phillip Baumber https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/05/07/at-the-ragged-school-museum/#comment-1196375 Thu, 15 Feb 2018 17:47:34 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=112853#comment-1196375 What an excellent strict schoolmistress! She really looks the part.

]]> By: Romany Rose https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/05/07/at-the-ragged-school-museum/#comment-342577 Sun, 18 May 2014 20:37:42 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=112853#comment-342577 Can someone,tell me if the boys home at Stepney,East London is still standing and if so what is the building used for now
Thanks

]]> By: Romany Rose https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/05/07/at-the-ragged-school-museum/#comment-342576 Sun, 18 May 2014 20:34:33 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=112853#comment-342576 A huge thank you to the Author
My father was in 1915 placed in Barnardos at Stepney, East London,where he remained for the next 10 years,he was placed there with his younger brother and elder sister,the sister being 15 was placed in service and the 2 brothers were seperated with the belief that the younger one would be adopted,he never was and the two brothers remained seperated upon my fathers release 2days before his 15th birthday he had no where to live so joined up in the army,he lost all touch with his siblings and was only reunited with his younger brother 6 months before my father died

]]> By: Elizabeth cornwell https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/05/07/at-the-ragged-school-museum/#comment-324595 Fri, 09 May 2014 06:35:14 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=112853#comment-324595 I remember school desks like the ones pictured!Also the joy of being promoted from writng with a pencil to a dip pen & becoming ink monitor!The basic education that children got in these schools was probably better than the basic education that children get mowadays!

]]> By: annie https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/05/07/at-the-ragged-school-museum/#comment-323220 Thu, 08 May 2014 12:46:05 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=112853#comment-323220 Like others who have responded to the very interesting article, I went to a Victorian built junior school in the mid/late 50’s where we still had those types of desks and classroom furniture. Happy days!

I must get round to visiting the museum sometime.

]]> By: LordBeariOfBow https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/05/07/at-the-ragged-school-museum/#comment-322648 Thu, 08 May 2014 06:26:51 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=112853#comment-322648 I sat at school desks from 1938 to 50 in Barking/Dagenham that were dead ringers of those pictured. But my memory of the teachers cane tells me that the cane pictured is a ring in. The canes used on me were lethal and very thin and stung like crazy; ah happy days 🙂

]]> By: Margaret https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/05/07/at-the-ragged-school-museum/#comment-322610 Thu, 08 May 2014 05:48:29 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=112853#comment-322610 Valerie-Jael comments that she remembers school furniture like this in the 1950s. The primary school in the small town in France where I lived till very recently still has desks like those in daily use. In fact I thought you must have paid it a visit!

]]> By: Richard Sintchak https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/05/07/at-the-ragged-school-museum/#comment-322177 Thu, 08 May 2014 00:17:47 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=112853#comment-322177 Please do not think me insulting but is that teacher the Viscountess Boudica in dress-up?

]]> By: Peter Holford https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/05/07/at-the-ragged-school-museum/#comment-321505 Wed, 07 May 2014 15:57:46 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=112853#comment-321505 Oh dear – a lot of familiar images from my childhood. Must be getting old or did nothing much change between 1884 and the 1950s. Another place to add to the list of ‘must visits’. Thank you.

]]> By: armier https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/05/07/at-the-ragged-school-museum/#comment-320788 Wed, 07 May 2014 08:52:28 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=112853#comment-320788 Yet again the gentle author leaves me speechless with another previously unknown secret, now brought out into the sunlight.

I am grateful.

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