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This section is in progress. It gathers the pages on schools on and around the Common, from the Victorian private schools and orphan asylums to what became of our secondary schools after 1955.
— Going Comprehensive: what became of our secondary schools, 1955–1993
— Going Private: our independent schools since 1945
— A Board School on the Common? Trinity Fields, 1883–1884
— The School Board elections, 1885
— The Royal Victoria Patriotic Asylums — the two orphan schools built by the Patriotic Fund after the Crimean War
— The Royal Victoria Patriotic Asylum for Girls, 1859–1939
— The Royal Victoria Patriotic Asylum, Wandsworth Common, by Simon McNeill-Ritchie
— The Royal Victoria Patriotic Asylum for Boys, 1872–1882, by B.V. Slater
— Emanuel School — in the boys’ asylum building since 1883
— Lady Dacre and Emanuel School — the founder and her coat of arms
— Old Emanuel cricket: ninety-five years at Blagdon’s, by Graham Jackson
— The Halbrake School drownings: George Paris Sandeman and George Mitchison
— Kalulu, Henry Morton Stanley and Halbrake School
— Revd John Conder, his wife and children
— The Wilson family of The Beeches and Edwin Wilson
— Survey of London 49.3: St Mark’s Church and School
Spencer Park School; the Royal Masonic School for Girls; St James’s Industrial School; the Wandsworth Training College; the board schools at Belleville Road, Hearnville Road and Earlsfield.
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