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South East London

Heritage Group - Educatin Deptford - the Ragged School and its place in the community

Event type: Meeting
Date: 30th April 2027
Time: 10:15 am
Group: Heritage Group
Venue: Old Colfeians Rugby Football Club (Horn Park) SE12 8UE
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This is the rearranged date for the talk by Dr John Price. 

The Deptford Ragged School, founded in 1844, was situated at the heart of working-class Victorian Deptford. Very few families in the district were unconnected to the institution, yet very little is widely known about those families, or the children who attended, or the communities they lived within. In this talk, John who is the Consultant Historian for the Educating Deptford project, will outline the history of the school, discuss some of the work it undertook, and reveal what impact it had on the neighbourhoods around it.