Visit the Ragged School Museum!
Details
Come along on Sunday 1st December to visit the Ragged School Museum!
About the museum
Dr Barnado's Copperfield Road Ragged School opened in 1877 to serve the children of Mile End with a basic education and was the largest of its kind at the time.
The building was saved from demolition in the 1980s by local residents and a trust was set up to manage the property in 1990. The museum opened in the premises in the same year. The museum seeks to record the establishment in 1844 of the London Ragged School Union and to recreate the experience of how Victorian children would have been taught.
The museum features a reconstructed Victorian classroom and when we arrive, we will be having a 'Victorian school lesson' from our teacher 'Miss Perkins', so you can experience what it would have been like. The classroom is equipped with authentic and well-used school desks, slate writing boards and chalks, blackboards, easels and even dunce hats (exactly how it would have been in Victorian times).
Afterwards, we will look around the museum, where the galleries tell the social history of the East End of London in Victorian times.
The visit should last about 1h 30mins/2 hours. After the lesson which we will have when we arrive, the museum will be self guiding.
Cost
Entry to the museum & the Victorian classroom lesson is £10 for Full Members & £12 for everyone else (payable on the day by cash or PayPal).
To become a Full Member (£14 a year), either go to PayPal and send a payment to [email protected], send via Bank Transfer (email me for details) or pay cash on the day.
Afterwards
After we will head to the museum cafe.
If you can make it, please come to the cafe afterwards, as it’s a great way to meet and get to know others after the visit.
Please note, we only wait outside the station for 10 minutes after the advertised meeting time, so please be early or on time.
If you can't see us outside the station, please text.
Look out for the red and blue 'London Cultureseekers' group sign.
Hope to see you there!
Robert
07905 901 834 (prefer text)
On the day, if you can’t make the trip, just change your RSVP to No or text me to say you can’t make it.
Please don’t post any messages in the comments that you can’t make it, as this generates spam for everyone else.
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Visit the Ragged School Museum!