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Cuckoo Schools was a large school for children of destitute families which was created as the Central London District Poor Law School by the City of London and the East London and St. Saviour Workhouse Unions in 1857.
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There was a high incidence of the infectious eye disease ophthalmia amongst children at the Schools. The disease was probably carried by children transferred from the Norwood School and kept alive by the regular turnover of children arriving from the member unions' workhouses. A particularly serious outbreak in 1862 affected 686 children, with seve...
The most famous Hanwell inmate was Charlie Chaplin who, together with his older half-brother Sydney, was admitted in June 1896 and stayed until January 1898. They had initially spent three weeks at the Newingtonworkhouse where their mother continued to reside. The boys were transferred to the School in a horse-drawn bakery van and spent time in the...
1849-1860 — Superintendent: Mr Aubin; Matron: Mrs Aubin.1898 — Superintendent: Mr Hall; Matron: Mrs Hall; Medical Officer: Dr Littlejohn.1914 — Matron and Superintendent: Mrs. Charlotte A Hall; Chaplain: Rev. Solomon Wall Allen; Medical Officer: George Alexander Davidson; Headmaster (senior mixed department): George G Gill; Headmist...Note: many repositories impose a closure period of up to 100 years for records identifying individuals. Before travelling a long distance, always check that the records you want to consult will be available. 1. The Ancestry UK website has two collections of London workhouse records (both name searchable): 1.1. Ancestry: London Workhouse Admission/D...
Higginbotham, Peter Workhouses of London and the South East(2019)Chaplin, Charles (1964) My Autobiography(Bodley Head: London)Stewart, Susan The Central London District Schools 1856-1933: A Short Historyby (c.1980, Hanwell Community Association)A Workhouse Farm— description of an 1889 visit to the Schools by A.T. PaskCuckoo Schools was a large school for children of destitute families which was created as the Central London District Poor Law School by the City of London and the East London and St. Saviour Workhouse Unions in 1857. It was built on the land of Cuckoo Farm on Cuckoo Hill in 190 acres of Hanwell.
- A Hollywood superstar lived here as a destitute child. As a seven-year-old, Charlie Chaplin became a pupil at a school for destitute children in Ealing.
- Cradle of the Rolling Stones. The Rolling Stones formed after the members met at the Ealing Club, a pioneering early-Sixties venue in a cellar beneath a cafe, opposite Ealing Broadway station.
- The Marshall Amp is born. Ealing has another huge rock and roll link. Modern stadium rock concerts were made possible thanks to a little shop in the Uxbridge Road.
- Beginnings of a dance legend. The Stones and The Who weren't the only ones in Ealing with a strong sense of rhythm. The legendary ballerina Margot Fonteyn (1919-1991) spent six childhood years in Ealing.
Hanwell Community Centre Consortium. The Hanwell Community Centre (HCC), built as the Cuckoo Schools in 1857 a home for over 1000 children, is situated at the top of Cuckoo Avenue, in the heart of the Big Local area.
The Central London School District was established by an order of the Poor Law Board on 6 Mar. 1849. It comprised the City of London Union and the parish of St. Saviour, Southwark, to which was...
Cuckoo Schools was a large school for children of destitute families which was created as the Central London District Poor Law School by the City of London and the East London and St. Saviour Workhouse Unions in 1857.
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