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1. tottenham-summerhillroad.com › schools_ofTHE OLD SCHOOLS OF TOTTENHAM - TOTTENHAM - SUMMERHILL ROAD

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   Tottenham has enjoyed a long history of schooling and during the 18th and 19th century there were many well-known and respected Quaker schools that drew pupils from around the world. These included Grove House, Eagle House and the school of Josiah Forster that were all established in the vicinity of Tottenham Green.

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2. new.haringey.gov.uk › tottenham-green-trailblazersTottenham Green Trailblazers | Haringey Council

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   The Forster family had long ties with Tottenham and educational reform. In 1752 Josiah Forster (1693-1763) opened a Quaker school on the eastern side of Tottenham Green. The school continued after his death and was relocated across to the other side of the Green at Eagle House, the site where Tottenham Town Hall was later built.

3. tottenhamquakers.org.uk › historyLocal Quaker History | Tottenham Quaker Meeting

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   Josiah was already running his own school in Southgate and he moved this school to Tottenham, teaching there until his retirement in 1826. At this point the school was closed. Eagle House. Another private Quaker school in Tottenham opened in the early nineteenth century. It was a preparatory school for boys aged five to ten.

4. new.haringey.gov.uk › leisure-parks-cultureRevolutionary Schooling | Haringey Council

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   There were a number of schools in Tottenham, run by members of the local Quaker community, around Tottenham Green and along the High Road, including The Bluecoats, now a public house. Some philanthropic schools – like the Ragged Schools – aimed to improve literacy amongst the most poverty-stricken communities through the study of the Bible.

5. tottenham-summerhillroad.com › eagle_house_schoolEagle House School - Tottenham

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   The ‘Eagle House School’ was once situated on Tottenham Green, as were several other Quaker Schools in the same period. Refer to the extract from an old map dating back to 1864 that shows its location .

6. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Grove_House_SchoolGrove House School - Wikipedia

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   School. The school was established in 1828 as a boarding school for 75 boys of the Quaker community, [2] initially under Thomas Binns. One of its founders was Josiah Forster, who had attended the Quaker school his grandfather had founded in 1752, Forster's School, also in Tottenham. Its curriculum was advanced for its time, and it did not use ...

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   Are there Quaker schools in Tottenham Green?

   • Tottenham has enjoyed a long history of schooling and during the 18th and 19th century there were many well-known and respected Quaker schools that drew pupils from around the world. These included Grove House, Eagle House and the school of Josiah Forster that were all established in the vicinity of Tottenham Green.

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   What schools were built in Tottenham Green?

   • These included Grove House, Eagle House and the school of Josiah Forster that were all established in the vicinity of Tottenham Green. In 1827 Thomas Wright Hill purchased Bruce Castle House and opened the most distinguished of Tottenham’s schools.

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   How many Quaker schools are there in the UK?

   • LSF has 2 card-indexes of some 250 privately-run Quaker schools in Great Britain and Ireland which advertised in The Irish Friend 1837-1842, The Friend 1843-1890, and The British Friend 1843-1875. These are arranged alphabetically by city, town or village and by proprietors’ names, but don’t include lists of pupils.

   Library of the Religious Society of Friends in Britain - Quakers

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   Where can I find information about Quaker schools?

   • There is also a geographically-arranged file, ‘Quaker schools’, which includes information on some 200 (mainly private) Quaker schools, drawn from prospectuses, memoirs and other sources. The Natural history journal, (Pers/NAT) conducted by the societies in Friends’ schools, Vols 1-22 (1877-1898) is also informative.

   Library of the Religious Society of Friends in Britain - Quakers

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   When did Quaker schools become a part of the friend?

   • The Friend (London) devoted most of its issue of 28 May 1954 to Quaker schools. Friends’ schools in the seventies: the report of a working party of the Friends Schools Joint Committee (1973) [044 FRI], provides a snapshot of the position of the committee schools and outlines contemporary divergent views on Quaker education.

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   How are Quaker schools arranged?

   • These are arranged alphabetically by city, town or village and by proprietors’ names, but don’t include lists of pupils. There is also a geographically-arranged file, ‘Quaker schools’, which includes information on some 200 (mainly private) Quaker schools, drawn from prospectuses, memoirs and other sources.

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8. www.quaker.org.uk › documents › schools-lib-guideLibrary of the Religious Society of Friends in Britain - Quakers

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   committee schools and outlines contemporary divergent views on Quaker education. There is also a substantial report, ‘Quaker Involvement in Education’ in London YM Proceedings (1978): pp 54-101 and the resulting YM minutes, pp 310, 313-314. Quakers and their schools (1980) [040 Edu 5/10] by the Friends Joint Schools