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Newspaper
Nonconformist
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Jul 23, 1879
Page
8
A school event celebrated improvements in nonconformist education and recalls earlier bans on dissenters’ access to higher learning. Speakers praise headmasters, urge continued effort, and credit London University and Oxford Cambridge openings for widening opportunities. Attendees include Mr. Wright Mr. Alliott Mr Morlais Jones and others.
The annual summer fete near Farningham Kent drew many London visitors by special train. Visitors toured new workshops where elder boys work as tailors, shoemakers, bakers, printers, and more under skilled instruction. A key ceremony opened Leicester House, funded by Mrs. Mary Ann Leicester, with Lady Edith Ashley receiving the house key for the institution. The display showed existing funds limit expansion. plans hoped to house thirty more boys by Christmas. Eleven houses now shelter thirty boys each under married couples, with older youths in workshops and younger ones in school. A schoolmaster noted improved education as school boards reach the children. Lord Shaftesbury praised the home system for its educational value, highlighting home life as a major challenge ragged schools face.
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